Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Ness, Vivian Faye Reynolds November 18, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, November 19, 2004
     Vivian Faye Reynolds Ness, 87, a former resident of Grass Valley, died at 
a Portland care facility on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004. 
     She was born in Grass Valley, July 16, 1917. She was the first child of 
Ellen and Dean Reynolds and the sister of Gene Reynolds. 
     She attended grade school and high school in Grass Valley. Following 
graduation from high school in June 1934, she spent a year at home studying 
music. In fall 1935 she enrolled in the Oregon Normal School in Monmouth, 
where she studied education. Upon graduation in 1937, she accepted a teaching 
position in the music department at Frankton School in Hood River, where she 
taught and directed the school band. 
     She married Warren Elliott in 1939, who was teaching music in Hood River 
as well. During the war they moved to San Diego, Calif., where her husband was 
stationed in the Navy and their daughter, Sandra, was born in 1944. When the 
war ended they moved to Vancouver, Wash., where Carol was born in 1946. 
     In 1953 they moved to Medford, where she taught in a private kindergarten 
for several years. The family moved to Portland in 1953, where she taught at 
St. Helen’s Hall.
     In 1968 she married Arthur Ness and they moved to Bellevue, Wash., where 
they lived until 1998.
     She was a member of Broadmoor Country Club in Seattle, and was on the 
women’s golf team. She was an accomplished pianist, an avid gardener and loved 
flowers, especially her dahlias. 
     She is survived by her two daughters: Sandra Barnett, Orinda, Calif.; and 
Carol Foster, Portland; two granddaughters, Jennifer Barnett, Orinda, Calif.; 
and Sarah Foster, Portland; brother Gene Reynolds, The Dalles; husband Arthur 
Ness, Lake Havasu, Ariz.; and step-children Steve Ness, Stuart Ness and Susie 
Marceau, of Portland and Seattle.
     Graveside services will be held at Threemile Road Odd Fellows Cemetery 
formerly known as Parklawn Cemetery on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 at 11 a.m. 
Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home is in care of arrangements.
     Memorial contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s Association, 1311 NW 
21st Ave., Portland, OR 97209.


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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