Vivian Lucille (Wenos) MATHERLY PHARES

PHARES, MATHERLY, WENOS, VANVELZEN, FITZGERALD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/9/2007 at 21:19:01

Born February 4, 1914 in Goldfield, Wright County, Iowa
Died October 5, 1992 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa

DES MOINES REGISTER, Unknown Date (ca. 1992)

Vivian Lillian Phares, 78, of 1815 Sixth Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa, died of a heart ailment Friday, October 5, 1992, at Iowa Lutheran Hospital. The body was donated to the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, and memorial services were held at noon on the following Saturday at the home of her granddaughter, Michelle Vanvelzen, 215 S.E. Hughes Circle, Des Moines, Iowa.

Mrs. Phares was born in Wright County and had lived in Des Moines since 1983. She had also lived in Long Beach, California. She was a retired waitress at various hotel restaurants in Des Moines and a member of Frisbee School Alumni Association. Survivors include a daughter, Sharon Fitzgerald, and two sons, James Matherly and Alfred Phares III, all of Des Moines, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Arrangements were handled by Dunn’s Funeral Home.