Vivian Louise Frantz, Warsaw, passed away at 10:56 p.m. Sunday, June 24, 2018, at Miller’s Merry Manor, Warsaw, at the age of 92.
She was born Nov. 29, 1925, in Winona Lake, in the home of her grandparents, to Ethel Snell Swartz and Donald Swartz.
Vivian grew up on a farm in Monroe Township and graduated in 1943 as the salutatorian of her class from Sidney High School. After graduation she traveled to Houston, Texas, to marry her high school sweetheart, Darrel Max Frantz, on July 10, 1943. After the war, they settled in Sidney. They celebrated 50 years of marriage before he passed away at their winter home in Panama City, Fla., on May 2, 1994.
She lived in Florida from that time on until moving back to Indiana in the summer of 2009.
Vivian will be dearly missed by her family and friends.
She will be lovingly remembered by her son, John (wife Kimberly) Frantz, Burlington, Ky.; daughter, Mary (husband Dennis) Anderson, Warsaw; three grandchildren: Kristan (husband Matt) Donk, Fort Wayne; Donald Frantz, Aurora; and Kara (husband Nicholas) Schafer, Madison; and three great-grandchildren: Alexander Juliano, Fort Wayne, and Dylan and Liam Schafer, Madison. Also surviving are five stepgrandchildren and six great-stepgrandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.
Private services will be held at a later date.
Arrangements were entrusted to Redpath-Fruth Funeral Home, Warsaw.
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