Vivian DeMar

DEMAR, FISHER, JONES, WALKOFF

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 3/20/2006 at 16:03:38

Winterset Madisonian
March 2, 1988

Vivian DeMar, Florida

Vivian L. DeMar, 91, died Feb. 23, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where she had lived for the past 30 years.

Vivian was born in Winterset October 9, 1896, the daughter of William G. and Hattie Fisher DeMar.

She graduated from Winterset High School in 1918, Drake University in 1921, and Baptist MPS Maywood, Ill., in 1929.

She taught school at Luscomb School, Cotter Consolidated and North Ward, Winterset.

Vivian was a Christian worker at Kodiak Island, Alaska. While there she cared for an infant, Sam Walkoff, who was later brought to her and she raised him while in Winterset and later in Hammond Ind.

Vivian is survived by her sister, Mildred V. Jones of Columbus City, Iowa and Sam Walkoff and sons, Douglas and Brian of Murfreesboro, Tenn. She was preceded in death by parents and one brother, Owen E. DeMar.

Services were held in Ft. Lauderdale.