Vivian L. Cook

Vivian L. Cook, 90, of Kearney died Saturday, January 18, 2014 at the Mt. Carmel Keens Memorial Home. Funeral services will be 10:30 A.M., Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at the O'Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral Home with the Reverend Eric Lesher officiating. Interment will be at 1:00 P.M. in the Minden Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior at the funeral home in Kearney. Memorials are suggested to Mt. Carmel Home Keens Memorial and AsCera Hospice. Online condolences may be submitted to www.osrfh.com. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the O'Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral Home in Kearney. Vivian was born November 7, 1923 in Phillisburg, KS to Clifford S. Chisholm and Hazel (Wilson) Chisholm. Vivian was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church at Macon. She graduated from Bloomington High School in 1941 and received her teacher’s certificate from Kearney State. Vivian taught kindergarten in Kansas schools and rural schools in Franklin County, Nebraska. September 30th, 1945 she married Delmer E. Fritson in Little Rock, Arkansas where Delmer was stationed with the Army. After her husband returned from Service they farmed around the Macon area. They later bought a package store and gravel trucking business in Minden, NE. Vivian managed the store and did bookkeeping for the gravel business. After Delmer’s death on February 13, 1974, Vivian worked at the First National Bank in Minden. On April 7, 1978, she married Estle Cook of Hastings. They made their home in Springfield, Missouri until he retired from his work and moved back to Kearney, NE for retirement. He died May 9, 2006. Vivian was and active member of Zion Lutheran Church and Prince of Peace of Peace Luthern in Springfield. She volunteered in the Green Co. Nursing Home. She enjoyed her bowling with the women league in Minden and with the Church league in Springfield. She loved to travel – once to Hawaii and in almost all of the states. Survivors includes sister Jeanne Stolarz and husband Gene of Banning, CA, brother Van Chisholm and wife Kathy Lamarque of Mesa, AZ, sister-in-law Yvonne Chisholm of Ridgecrest, CA, sister-in-law Marilyn Chisholm of Fargo, ND, brother-in-law Johnny Fritson and wife Donelta of Franklin, NE, sister-in-laws Evon Kubert and husband Marvin, Woodriver, NE. She was preceded in death by her parents Clifford and Hazel Chisholm, brothers Verlon, Vaughn, Victor, and Jerry and sister-in-law DeLayne Frecks and her husband Alfred, and brother-in-law Ronald Fritson.

Vivian L. Cook

November 7, 1923 - January 18, 2014