Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 06:49:25 :
Novato Advance
Wednesday, April 26, 1978
VIVA E. MERWIN
Mass of the Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Our Lady of Loretto Church for Viva E. Merwin who died Monday at a local convalescent hospital at the age of 80.
She was the wife of the late Oliver E. Merwin Sr., a soils engineer who died in 1969.
Mrs. Merwin was a native of Nebraska and grew up there. She and her husband lived in San Francisco for about 20 years before moving to Novato in 1961 and making their home in the Country Club area.
She is survived by three sons, Oliver E. Merwin Jr., of Novato, James Merwin, of Los Altos, and Eugene Merwin of West Australia; and a sister, Opal Gipson, of Arizona.
Recitation of the Rosary will be held at 8 p.m. today at Keaton’s Chapel of Marin. Burial tomorrow will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Memorial contributions to the American Heart Fund or a favorite charity are preferred by the family.
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