IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Vivian Maxine
Goddard
April 26, 1911 – February 24, 2011
Obituary
Vivian Maxine Goddard, 99 of Louisburg, Kansas, died Thursday, February 24, 2011 in Vintage Park at Louisburg. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, February 28, 2011 at the Atkinson Chapel in Harrisonville, MO. Burial will be in Glenwild Cemetery, Cleveland, MO. Mrs. Goddard will lie in state from 12:00-3:00 p.m. Sunday, February 27 at the chapel. Memorial contributions may be made to the West Line Christian Church, Cleveland, MO, Glenwild Cemetery, Cleveland, MO or Odyssey Hospice, Kansas City, MO.
Vivian was born April 26, 1911 in West Line, MO, the daughter of John Thomas and Sarah Pauline (Duncan) Wilcox. She accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and guide at age 13 and was active in the West Line, Missouri Christian Church as a Sunday school teacher and pianist, as long as she was able.
She was a 1927 graduate of Louisburg, Kansas High School. After two years of Business College, she worked a variety of jobs, including for the Challenger Windmill Company. Later on in life she worked for a printing company, as a school cook and for a sewing factory.
After the death of her mother and her husband, both in 1977, she did volunteer work for the Louisburg Care Center, sewing on buttons, writing letters and playing the piano for sing-a-long. In 1997 the State of Kansas honored her as the senior nursing home volunteer of the year. The plaque she received was one of her most prized possessions. She also wrote the West Line local news articles for area newspapers for several years and enjoyed the contact with all her contributors.
In 1926, at age 15, she met and fell in love with a neighbor boy, Ralph Perry Goddard. On November 19, 1930, they were married. To this union was born three sons, Perry Eugene "Gene" Goddard, John Newton Goddard and Jerry William Goddard.
Vivian was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, Wilma Mathews and her husband, Ralph in 1977. She is survived by three sons, Gene Goddard and his wife, Doris, Cleveland, MO, John Goddard and his wife, Barbara, Cleveland, MO and Jerry Goddard and his wife, Norma, Springfield, MO; 11 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, 8 great-great-grandchildren; 2 step-great-great-grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
Vivian was born April 26, 1911 in West Line, MO, the daughter of John Thomas and Sarah Pauline (Duncan) Wilcox. She accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and guide at age 13 and was active in the West Line, Missouri Christian Church as a Sunday school teacher and pianist, as long as she was able.
She was a 1927 graduate of Louisburg, Kansas High School. After two years of Business College, she worked a variety of jobs, including for the Challenger Windmill Company. Later on in life she worked for a printing company, as a school cook and for a sewing factory.
After the death of her mother and her husband, both in 1977, she did volunteer work for the Louisburg Care Center, sewing on buttons, writing letters and playing the piano for sing-a-long. In 1997 the State of Kansas honored her as the senior nursing home volunteer of the year. The plaque she received was one of her most prized possessions. She also wrote the West Line local news articles for area newspapers for several years and enjoyed the contact with all her contributors.
In 1926, at age 15, she met and fell in love with a neighbor boy, Ralph Perry Goddard. On November 19, 1930, they were married. To this union was born three sons, Perry Eugene "Gene" Goddard, John Newton Goddard and Jerry William Goddard.
Vivian was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, Wilma Mathews and her husband, Ralph in 1977. She is survived by three sons, Gene Goddard and his wife, Doris, Cleveland, MO, John Goddard and his wife, Barbara, Cleveland, MO and Jerry Goddard and his wife, Norma, Springfield, MO; 11 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, 8 great-great-grandchildren; 2 step-great-great-grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
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