Vivian Marcella Griggs and her twin sister Lillian were born to Sue Evans Griggs and Wayne Dewey Griggs in Hopewell, VA. They had a slightly older sister, Pauline, and a much younger brother, Wayne Lee. When the three girls were still babies, their small house caught fire. The family story has it that their mother Sue threw the babies out the window into the bushes to save them. The family moved to Phoebus, Virginia in the 1930s, where Sue started her first business, Lee's Confectionary. She also owned a business that may have been known as "Sue's Corner Cupboard" during World War Two. Vivan, Lillian, Polly and Wayne Lee Griggs all graduated from Hampton High School.
Vivian married several times and was the beloved mother of two daughters by two of the husbands, grandmother of four girls and three boys, and now the great-grandmother of more than a few wonderful children who will sadly never enjoy the pleasure of knowing her.
She worked as a telephone operator in Chicago in the 1940s, and a clerk typist, secretary and all around Civil Servant for the U.S. Army at Fort Monroe, Virgina and Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. In the early 1960s, she worked as a secretary for the Tumpane Company at a U.S. military site near Ankara, Turkey, taking a rickity bus each day through the mountains and villages 21 miles out of Ankara.
She was a natural musician, and often was a band singer at military bases during the 1940s and 50s. She wrote several songs and a unpublished children's book. She was a terrific story teller, and a warm and loving woman. As the mother of a daughter born in the 1940s with cerebral palsy, she became a long time volunteer and several times a local chapter officer for the Cerebral Palsy Association.
Vivian was a beautiful woman with a wonderful laugh, and a great personality. She was often too gullible for her own good, and chose her husbands poorly. When it came to her career, she was smarter than many, and won official awards for suggestions which saved thousands of dollars for the military. She and her twin sister Lillian were well known as very kind, caring women who went out of their way to help others many times over. They are both very, very missed.
Vivian married several times and was the beloved mother of two daughters by two of the husbands, grandmother of four girls and three boys, and now the great-grandmother of more than a few wonderful children who will sadly never enjoy the pleasure of knowing her.
She worked as a telephone operator in Chicago in the 1940s, and a clerk typist, secretary and all around Civil Servant for the U.S. Army at Fort Monroe, Virgina and Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. In the early 1960s, she worked as a secretary for the Tumpane Company at a U.S. military site near Ankara, Turkey, taking a rickity bus each day through the mountains and villages 21 miles out of Ankara.
She was a natural musician, and often was a band singer at military bases during the 1940s and 50s. She wrote several songs and a unpublished children's book. She was a terrific story teller, and a warm and loving woman. As the mother of a daughter born in the 1940s with cerebral palsy, she became a long time volunteer and several times a local chapter officer for the Cerebral Palsy Association.
Vivian was a beautiful woman with a wonderful laugh, and a great personality. She was often too gullible for her own good, and chose her husbands poorly. When it came to her career, she was smarter than many, and won official awards for suggestions which saved thousands of dollars for the military. She and her twin sister Lillian were well known as very kind, caring women who went out of their way to help others many times over. They are both very, very missed.
Vivian Marcella Griggs and her twin sister Lillian were born to Sue Evans Griggs and Wayne Dewey Griggs in Hopewell, VA. They had a slightly older sister, Pauline, and a much younger brother, Wayne Lee. When the three girls were still babies, their small house caught fire. The family story has it that their mother Sue threw the babies out the window into the bushes to save them. The family moved to Phoebus, Virginia in the 1930s, where Sue started her first business, Lee's Confectionary. She also owned a business that may have been known as "Sue's Corner Cupboard" during World War Two. Vivan, Lillian, Polly and Wayne Lee Griggs all graduated from Hampton High School.
Vivian married several times and was the beloved mother of two daughters by two of the husbands, grandmother of four girls and three boys, and now the great-grandmother of more than a few wonderful children who will sadly never enjoy the pleasure of knowing her.
She worked as a telephone operator in Chicago in the 1940s, and a clerk typist, secretary and all around Civil Servant for the U.S. Army at Fort Monroe, Virgina and Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. In the early 1960s, she worked as a secretary for the Tumpane Company at a U.S. military site near Ankara, Turkey, taking a rickity bus each day through the mountains and villages 21 miles out of Ankara.
She was a natural musician, and often was a band singer at military bases during the 1940s and 50s. She wrote several songs and a unpublished children's book. She was a terrific story teller, and a warm and loving woman. As the mother of a daughter born in the 1940s with cerebral palsy, she became a long time volunteer and several times a local chapter officer for the Cerebral Palsy Association.
Vivian was a beautiful woman with a wonderful laugh, and a great personality. She was often too gullible for her own good, and chose her husbands poorly. When it came to her career, she was smarter than many, and won official awards for suggestions which saved thousands of dollars for the military. She and her twin sister Lillian were well known as very kind, caring women who went out of their way to help others many times over. They are both very, very missed.
Vivian married several times and was the beloved mother of two daughters by two of the husbands, grandmother of four girls and three boys, and now the great-grandmother of more than a few wonderful children who will sadly never enjoy the pleasure of knowing her.
She worked as a telephone operator in Chicago in the 1940s, and a clerk typist, secretary and all around Civil Servant for the U.S. Army at Fort Monroe, Virgina and Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. In the early 1960s, she worked as a secretary for the Tumpane Company at a U.S. military site near Ankara, Turkey, taking a rickity bus each day through the mountains and villages 21 miles out of Ankara.
She was a natural musician, and often was a band singer at military bases during the 1940s and 50s. She wrote several songs and a unpublished children's book. She was a terrific story teller, and a warm and loving woman. As the mother of a daughter born in the 1940s with cerebral palsy, she became a long time volunteer and several times a local chapter officer for the Cerebral Palsy Association.
Vivian was a beautiful woman with a wonderful laugh, and a great personality. She was often too gullible for her own good, and chose her husbands poorly. When it came to her career, she was smarter than many, and won official awards for suggestions which saved thousands of dollars for the military. She and her twin sister Lillian were well known as very kind, caring women who went out of their way to help others many times over. They are both very, very missed.
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