Vivian Pinson

Vivian Reeves Pinson was born on May 6, 1920 at home in Livingston, Texas. She was the first child of Mr. Louis Victor Reeves of Lynchburg, Texas and Mrs. Lillie Mae Hinch of El Campo, Texas. Vivian Reeves Pinson passed away on September 15, 2015.

She is preceded in death by her parents Louis Victor and Lillie May Reeves, her husband Bill Pinson, and her sister Frances Fay (Reeves) Shuttlesworth. She is survived by her brother Louis Victor, Jr. and sister in law Hope Reeves, numerous nieces, nephews, and extended family and friends.

Vivian attended Franklin Elementary, Edison Middle School and graduated from Sam Houston High School.

Soon after graduation, Vivian began working at Heering Truck Co. as a bookkeeper. During World War II,

she worked at a defense plant in Colorado, and later at Carnation Milk Co., who sold out to Oak Farms where Vivian retired.

Vivian was a member of Memorial Baptist Church since joining on March 7, 1937 and was baptized on March 28, 1937.

Vivian was active in the ALON club, where she met Bill and supported him through most of his 44 years of sobriety till he passed.

Both Vivian and Bill had no children, but she became known as cat woman, because she kept up to 30 cats at one time.

When retired they moved to Indian Springs near Livingston, TX where they bought a small wooded lot.

They had their cats and every now and then an uninvited possum or raccoon. They had a small camp house and loved nature and often had campfires going, while Bill cooked anything from pinto beans to coffee right over the campfire. Vivian and Bill also had a love for traveling. They took their annual vacations and always brought back with them loads of rocks for their beauty, as Bill was a rock hound. Vivian hacked thru her wooded land and lined her trail with colorful petrified rocks.

We’ll miss her and her beautiful decorative house parties that she enjoyed to give.