Vivian Nora Yoder

1913-2003

Funeral services will be held for eight-year Big Pine 
resident Vivian Nora Yoder, 89, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 
the First Baptist Church in Big Pine at 11 a.m. Pastor Tim 
Toppas will officiate.

Born to Francis S. Strain and Malinda Jane Henson Strain 
in Whittier, Calif. on March 27, 1913, Mrs. Yoder died on 
Feb. 20, 2003 in Big Pine.

Vivian attended Whittier schools and married Lester A. 
Yoder on Sept. 27, 1929. She lived in and around Southern 
California until moving to Florence, Mont. in 1946. She 
then moved to Hemet, Calif. in 1950 and worked as a cook 
for the Hemet Unified School District. Her husband was 
transferred to Washington in 1965, where they lived for 22 
years.

They moved to Lucerne Valley in 1987, and after her 
husband's death, she moved to Big Pine to be near her 
daughter in 1995.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, 
Lester A. Yoder, and son, Charles L. Yoder. Vivian will be 
buried next to her husband in Lucerne Valley Memorial Park.

She is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Betty and 
George Borlace of Big Pine; son and daughter-in-law, 
Richard and Karen Yoder of Custer, Wash.; sister, Maria 
Frazier of Whittier; 11 grandchildren and 17 great-
grandchildren.

Interment will be at the Lucerne Valley Cemetery on 
Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 1 p.m.

Bishop, Inyo County, California
The Inyo Register - Tuesday, February 22, 2003
Page A-2

Permission to post given by the Publisher, Sharon Dare.

Transcribed by Denise S. Flynn