Vivian McCarty

Vivian Lee McCarty, daughter of the late Joseph Y. and Nellie Hicks Taylor, was born on July 10, 1920, in Bell City, Missouri, and departed this life on Dec. 22, 2018, at the Life Care Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 98 years.

She worked for Elder Manufacturing and was a clerk for Ben Franklin. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Dexter, Missouri; the Order of the Eastern Star and the American Legion Auxiliary.

On April 21, 1943, she was united in marriage to Henry McCarty in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He preceded her in death on Dec. 12, 2013.

Survivors include a son, Gordon McCarty and wife, Cynthia, of Maitland, Florida; a daughter, Linda Godfrey and husband, Lawrence, of Cape Girardeau; four grandchildren, Lori Godfrey; Wendy Wiseman and husband, David; Dax McCarty and wife, Jen, and Dustin McCarty, and by a great-granddaughter, Sarah Wiseman.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Glenn and Cornell Taylor, and by a sister, Virginia White.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Saturday from noon until 2 p.m. Funeral service will then be conducted in the funeral home on Saturday at 2 p.m. Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery.