Obituary of Vivian Eleanor Beers

Vivian Eleanor Beers, age 94, was born near Fairmount, Illinois on a snowy, bitter cold night of January 3, 1922 to Ernest and Jean Beers. She attended Union School and Wesley School, one-room country elementary schools, then later graduated from Indianola High School, Indianola, Illinois. She also graduated in 1953 with a Bachelor of Education degree from Pestalozzi Froebel Teacher’s College, Chicago. Vivian invested her life in teaching, especially second-grade children. For many years she was a member of First Baptist Church, Blythe California, and more recently Mountain Avenue Baptist Church, Banning California. She was very active in church work, including AWANA, choir, library, Sunday school teaching, and helping with arts and crafts in a nursing home. Vivian went to be with Jesus on November 2, 2016, at Yucaipa, California. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother Ransom and nephew Douglas. Surviving are her sister Nora, her brother Gilbert and his wife Arlisle, one nephew and three nieces, six grand-nieces and five grand-nephews, and ten great-grand-nieces and nephews.