a Wife, a Mother, a Grandmother, a Daughter, a Friend...
Born: April 14, 1951
Died: February 19, 2007
Services held at: 11:00 A.M. Saturday, March 3, 2007, at the Central Christian Church in Marshalltown, Iowa.
For more information, please contact her son, Daniel Pinegar.
Gone From My Sight
by Henry Van Dyke
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."
Gone where?
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she let my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living
freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" [...]
Vivian completed an airline travel school in Kansas City, Missouri after graduating from high school and worked for two years in a travel agency. She went to Hawaii and also to Walt Disney World before it had opened while she worked there.
On November 7, 1971, Vivian was united in marriage to Calvin Eugene Pinegar in Fredericktown, Missouri. In 1979 they moved to Marshalltown, Iowa where they lived for 25 years. She was employed by the Mental Health Center of Mid-Iowa and then McFarland Clinic for nearly twenty-five years in the clerical department, and in the past few years Vivian had enjoyed starting her own medical transcription business.
Vivian was an active member of the Central Christian Church, singing in the choir and serving as Deacon. Vivian loved to sing and was well known for her solos, including participating in the community performances of Handel's Messiah in Marshalltown for a number of years. She enjoyed sewing and knitting, gardening, watching NFL football, playing with her grandchildren, and liked to travel, having visited all but six of the 50 states. In November 2006, Vivian got pleasure from watching her daughter get married.
Vivian was a loving mother and is survived by her husband: Gene Pinegar of State Center; mother: Martha Barr of Cameron, Missouri; four children: Saxon MacLeod of San Mateo, California, Daniel Pinegar of Washington, D.C., Michael Pinegar of State Center, Iowa, and Heather (Pinegar) Warnell of Wisconsin; two brothers and two sisters: Allan Barr of Missouri, Carol (Barr) Rippe of Kansas, Wayne Barr of Virginia, and Pat (Barr) Howard of Arkansas; and two twin grandchildren: Raven & Blake Pinegar. She was preceded in death by her father this past December.