Vivian Irene Agan Barnhart was born to Leo Bruce and Maggie Amelia (Crooks) Agan on the family homestead at Achilles, Kansas, February 1, 1908. She died October 29, 1991, at the Good Samaritan Center, Atwood, Kansas, at the age of 83 years, 8 months and 28 days.
She acquired her education by attending Achilles country school. She was a longtime resident of Thomas and Rawlins counties.
Vivian was united in marriage to Everett Lee Barnhart on May 16, 1927, at Oberlin, Kansas. Shortly after their marriage during the dust bowl days they moved to Hale, Colorado where they resided in a sod house. In 1932 they moved back to Kansas where they lived the rest of their lives. After settling in her Kansas home she did what she did best, caring for and raising her seven children and being a homemaker. After they moved to Atwood, she worked at Lakeside Cafe, and then the Good Samaritan Center. She later owned and operated the Barnhart Garden Center and had the "Green Thumb Garden Show" on Channel 8 TV in Oberlin. She retired from the Garden Center at the age of eighty.
The joys of her life included her husband, family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her gardens and flower beds and her great love for cooking and baking.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Everett; a son Dile; a brother Herbert; a sister Alta Morton; son-in-law Melvin Vap; daughter-in-law Donna Barnhart; and grandaughter Rebecca Vap.
Survivors include her children Irene Barnhart Vap Guth and husband Walt, of Atwood, Kansas; Merlin Barnhart and wife Shirley, of Dewey, Oklahoma; Neal Barnhart and wife Sharon, of Lakewood, Colorado; Nema Schneider and husband LeRoy of McDonald, Kansas; Margaret Tolliver and husband David, of Center, Colorado; and Rell Barnhart of Atwood, Kansas; two sisters, Freda Chandler of Atwood, Kansas and Vada Curley of Las Animas, Colorado; 22 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren; daughter-in-law Virginia Barnhart of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and other relatives and friends.
She acquired her education by attending Achilles country school. She was a longtime resident of Thomas and Rawlins counties.
Vivian was united in marriage to Everett Lee Barnhart on May 16, 1927, at Oberlin, Kansas. Shortly after their marriage during the dust bowl days they moved to Hale, Colorado where they resided in a sod house. In 1932 they moved back to Kansas where they lived the rest of their lives. After settling in her Kansas home she did what she did best, caring for and raising her seven children and being a homemaker. After they moved to Atwood, she worked at Lakeside Cafe, and then the Good Samaritan Center. She later owned and operated the Barnhart Garden Center and had the "Green Thumb Garden Show" on Channel 8 TV in Oberlin. She retired from the Garden Center at the age of eighty.
The joys of her life included her husband, family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her gardens and flower beds and her great love for cooking and baking.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Everett; a son Dile; a brother Herbert; a sister Alta Morton; son-in-law Melvin Vap; daughter-in-law Donna Barnhart; and grandaughter Rebecca Vap.
Survivors include her children Irene Barnhart Vap Guth and husband Walt, of Atwood, Kansas; Merlin Barnhart and wife Shirley, of Dewey, Oklahoma; Neal Barnhart and wife Sharon, of Lakewood, Colorado; Nema Schneider and husband LeRoy of McDonald, Kansas; Margaret Tolliver and husband David, of Center, Colorado; and Rell Barnhart of Atwood, Kansas; two sisters, Freda Chandler of Atwood, Kansas and Vada Curley of Las Animas, Colorado; 22 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren; daughter-in-law Virginia Barnhart of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and other relatives and friends.
Vivian Irene Agan Barnhart was born to Leo Bruce and Maggie Amelia (Crooks) Agan on the family homestead at Achilles, Kansas, February 1, 1908. She died October 29, 1991, at the Good Samaritan Center, Atwood, Kansas, at the age of 83 years, 8 months and 28 days.
She acquired her education by attending Achilles country school. She was a longtime resident of Thomas and Rawlins counties.
Vivian was united in marriage to Everett Lee Barnhart on May 16, 1927, at Oberlin, Kansas. Shortly after their marriage during the dust bowl days they moved to Hale, Colorado where they resided in a sod house. In 1932 they moved back to Kansas where they lived the rest of their lives. After settling in her Kansas home she did what she did best, caring for and raising her seven children and being a homemaker. After they moved to Atwood, she worked at Lakeside Cafe, and then the Good Samaritan Center. She later owned and operated the Barnhart Garden Center and had the "Green Thumb Garden Show" on Channel 8 TV in Oberlin. She retired from the Garden Center at the age of eighty.
The joys of her life included her husband, family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her gardens and flower beds and her great love for cooking and baking.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Everett; a son Dile; a brother Herbert; a sister Alta Morton; son-in-law Melvin Vap; daughter-in-law Donna Barnhart; and grandaughter Rebecca Vap.
Survivors include her children Irene Barnhart Vap Guth and husband Walt, of Atwood, Kansas; Merlin Barnhart and wife Shirley, of Dewey, Oklahoma; Neal Barnhart and wife Sharon, of Lakewood, Colorado; Nema Schneider and husband LeRoy of McDonald, Kansas; Margaret Tolliver and husband David, of Center, Colorado; and Rell Barnhart of Atwood, Kansas; two sisters, Freda Chandler of Atwood, Kansas and Vada Curley of Las Animas, Colorado; 22 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren; daughter-in-law Virginia Barnhart of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and other relatives and friends.
She acquired her education by attending Achilles country school. She was a longtime resident of Thomas and Rawlins counties.
Vivian was united in marriage to Everett Lee Barnhart on May 16, 1927, at Oberlin, Kansas. Shortly after their marriage during the dust bowl days they moved to Hale, Colorado where they resided in a sod house. In 1932 they moved back to Kansas where they lived the rest of their lives. After settling in her Kansas home she did what she did best, caring for and raising her seven children and being a homemaker. After they moved to Atwood, she worked at Lakeside Cafe, and then the Good Samaritan Center. She later owned and operated the Barnhart Garden Center and had the "Green Thumb Garden Show" on Channel 8 TV in Oberlin. She retired from the Garden Center at the age of eighty.
The joys of her life included her husband, family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her gardens and flower beds and her great love for cooking and baking.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Everett; a son Dile; a brother Herbert; a sister Alta Morton; son-in-law Melvin Vap; daughter-in-law Donna Barnhart; and grandaughter Rebecca Vap.
Survivors include her children Irene Barnhart Vap Guth and husband Walt, of Atwood, Kansas; Merlin Barnhart and wife Shirley, of Dewey, Oklahoma; Neal Barnhart and wife Sharon, of Lakewood, Colorado; Nema Schneider and husband LeRoy of McDonald, Kansas; Margaret Tolliver and husband David, of Center, Colorado; and Rell Barnhart of Atwood, Kansas; two sisters, Freda Chandler of Atwood, Kansas and Vada Curley of Las Animas, Colorado; 22 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren; daughter-in-law Virginia Barnhart of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and other relatives and friends.
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