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| Vivian Marie Franklin |
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at the Holmeswood Baptist Church, 9700 Holmeswood Road, Kansas City, MO, with visitation from 10:00-11:00. Burial will be in Orient Cemetery, Harrisonville, Missouri.
Vivian was born February 25, 1923 in Everett, Missouri, the daughter of Grover E. and Lula M. (Gilbert) McCaslin, the youngest of three children. Vivian attended elementary school in rural schools of Cass County, Missouri and was a 1939 graduate of Harrisonville High School. She attended C.M.S.U. in Warrensburg in 1939. Vivian taught school for two years in a rural school in Cass County before her marriage. She was united in marriage to Lyle C. Franklin of Drexel, Missouri, on August 22, 1942 in Santa Ana, California, where Lyle was serving in the Army Air Corps. They became the proud parents of two children, Larry Gayle and Gayla Lu.
Vivian made her profession of faith in the fall of 1939 and became a member of the First Christian Church of Harrisonville. At the time of her death, she was a member of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri. Vivian retired from Kansas City Life Insurance Company where she worked in payroll. She had been a volunteer at Baptist Medical Center in Kansas City since January, 1985.
Vivian was preceded in death by her husband, Lyle in 1978, her son, Larry, in 1955, her father in 1949 and her mother in 1979, and two sisters, Jewell Ritchie in 1995 and Florence Mullis in 2009. She is survived by her faithful daughter, Gayla Honeycutt and her husband, Richard, Lee’s Summit, Missouri; her beloved granddaughter, Jennie Pollard and her husband, Stephen, and two great-grandsons, Liam and Aiden; other relatives and friends.
