Surnames: Viers, Brown, Spencer, Thompson, Mullen, Woods, Kennicott, Jacobson, Hanson, Gracey
ONTARIO – Virgil W. Viers, 70, of Ontario, died Tuesday at home. Graveside services will be conducted Thursday at 10 a.m., at the Nyssa Cemetery by Rev. Harold Sanner, of Ontario First Church of the Nazarene under the direction of the Lienkaemper Chapel in Ontario.
He was born Nov. 12, 1908, at Carmen, Okla., where he was reared and educated. He married Ethel Brown on Sept. 12, 1929, at Wheatland, Wyo. They lived in the Portland area before moving to Adrian, and lived at the Kingman Colony District, where they farmed in 1944. After his retirement they moved to Jamieson, Ore., in 1971. They moved to Ontario in 1978.
Surviving are his wife of Ontario; a son, William J. Viers of Nampa; two foster sons, Danny and Roy Spencer of Ontario; a brother, Victor Viers of Eugene, Ore.; seven sisters, Mrs. Elsie Thompson and Mrs. Rose Mullen, both of Wichita, Kan., Nora Woods of Kent, Wash., Mrs. Edna Kennicott of Grand Ronde, Ore., Mrs. Ethel Jacobson of Los Angeles, Mrs. Evelyn Hanson of Ontario, Calif., and Mrs. Geneva Gracey of Castro Valley, Calif.; four grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother and a grandson.
Friends may call today at the chapel at Ontario from 7 to 9 p.m.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society in care of the funeral home.
Surnames: Viers, Brown, Spencer, Thompson, Mullen, Woods, Kennicott, Jacobson, Hanson, Gracey
ONTARIO – Virgil W. Viers, 70, of Ontario, died Tuesday at home. Graveside services will be conducted Thursday at 10 a.m., at the Nyssa Cemetery by Rev. Harold Sanner, of Ontario First Church of the Nazarene under the direction of the Lienkaemper Chapel in Ontario.
He was born Nov. 12, 1908, at Carmen, Okla., where he was reared and educated. He married Ethel Brown on Sept. 12, 1929, at Wheatland, Wyo. They lived in the Portland area before moving to Adrian, and lived at the Kingman Colony District, where they farmed in 1944. After his retirement they moved to Jamieson, Ore., in 1971. They moved to Ontario in 1978.
Surviving are his wife of Ontario; a son, William J. Viers of Nampa; two foster sons, Danny and Roy Spencer of Ontario; a brother, Victor Viers of Eugene, Ore.; seven sisters, Mrs. Elsie Thompson and Mrs. Rose Mullen, both of Wichita, Kan., Nora Woods of Kent, Wash., Mrs. Edna Kennicott of Grand Ronde, Ore., Mrs. Ethel Jacobson of Los Angeles, Mrs. Evelyn Hanson of Ontario, Calif., and Mrs. Geneva Gracey of Castro Valley, Calif.; four grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother and a grandson.
Friends may call today at the chapel at Ontario from 7 to 9 p.m.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society in care of the funeral home.
Family Members
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Elsie Harriet Viers Thompson
1897–1981
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Rose Iva Viers Mullen
1899–1985
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Venora Bell "Nora" Viers Woods
1902–1982
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Edna Pearl Viers Kennicott
1904–1979
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Ethel Avis Viers Jacobson-Halfacre
1907–1994
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Evelyn Fern Viers Pemberton
1911–1979
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Geneva Jeanette Viers Gracey
1913–1980
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Nathaniel Franklin Viers
1917–1979
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Victor Dwight Viers
1922–1997
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