{"id":35906,"date":"2021-06-17T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=35906?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2021-06-17T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T05:02:31","slug":"vivian-stephanie-20210616035021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2021\/06\/17\/vivian-stephanie-20210616035021\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Stephanie"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Vivian Mae Stephanie, 84, died on June 6, 2021, at Faith Home in Wolf Point.<br \/>\n\t  She was born Oct. 28, 1936, in Poplar to Oscar and Elizabeth  (Habben) Dahlberg. She attended school at the Anderson School north of Brockton and, when the family  moved into Poplar, she attended  Poplar Public School through the eighth grade.<br \/>\n\t  She married Matt Stephanie  on Dec. 10, 1953, in Havre at the First Lutheran Church. Through this union, they had four children, Marvin, Darrell,  Bonnie and Gay. They also had two more children who they lost at birth, Thomas  and Mary. They were married  for 35 years before Matt\u2019s death May 8, 1989.<br \/>\n\t  She was a very hard and trustworthy worker her whole life. She kept busy by cleaning houses and ironing clothes for many families in Poplar and surrounding areas and worked many years on the weekends at the American  Legion Club.<br \/>\n\t  However, Vivian\u2019s true calling  was babysitting children for over 50 years in her tidy house that each child called their second home. She began  her babysitting career in the late 1960s, starting with Fred and Violet Sayers\u2019 two boys, Glenn \u201cPumpkin\u201d and Baby Boo, and Ronnie and Gemma Smith\u2019s three boys, Craig, Doug and Danny  Smith. These five boys were the start of thousands of children passing through \u201cGrandma Viv\u2019s\u201d loving door.<br \/>\n\t  She was preceded in death by her husband, Matt; son, Thomas; daughter, Mary; and sisters, Elsie Martin and Doris  Bahner.<br \/>\n\t  She is survived by her sons, Marvin and Darrell, both of Poplar; daughters, Bonnie Paige, of Poway, Calif., and Gay Pennington, of Billings;  five grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Don Dahlberg and Darrell Dahlberg, both north of Brockton.<br \/>\n\t  A funeral was held at Monday, June 14, at the First Presbyterian Church in Poplar.  Interment was at Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, north of Brockton. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel was entrusted with the arrangements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35906"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=35906"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=35906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}