Vivian Buss

PIERCE -- Services for Vivian V. Buss, 91, of Pierce will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Zion Lutheran Church here with burial in Prospect View Cemetery. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Thursday at Stonacek Memorial Chapel. The Rev. Gordon Bruce will officiate. She died Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at Homestead Assisted Living in Norfolk. She was born April 16, 1919, nine miles west of Madison to Rudolph and Mildred (Kuchar) Ambroz Denney. She was baptized and confirmed at Battle Creek Heights Church, Battle Creek, July 14, 1936. She attended School District 28, Madison County, through the eighth grade and graduated in 1937 from Madison High School with her class of 43 students. After graduation from high school, Vivian worked at the Lutheran Hospital in Norfolk. She met her husband at King's Ballroom in 1939. She was married to Raymond F. Buss on Jan. 5, 1941, at Zion Lutheran Church, Pierce. She was a homemaker, farm wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great- grandmother, seamstress, gardener, caretaker, pie maker, crocheting and sports fan of the Atlanta Braves. Vivian enjoyed her garden, canning and flowers.In her early years, they belonged to a card club, and as a couple they enjoyed fishing, camping and dancing. The Busses lived six miles west of Pierce, where they farmsteaded until 1969, with Vivian moving to Pierce in 1983 and then making her residence at the Homestead Living Center in Norfolk as of Jan. 8, 2010. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church and spent 26 years assembling church bulletins each week.\r\nSurvivors include her son, Robert and wife Janice Buss of Glen Burnie, Md., daughter Becky and husband Douglas Stevens of Norfolk and son Gene and wife Jolene Buss of Pierce; daughter-in-law Janice Koehler and husband Donavon of Pierce; 10 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; one sister-in-law, Dorothy Ambroz of Norfolk. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Raymond F. Buss, Jan. 5, 1983; son Donald Buss, Oct. 13, 1974; grandson Richard "Rick" Buss, Dec. 9, 2010; three sisters, Violet Rhoads, Opal Klein, Ilene Dopson; and two brothers, Lawrence and Orrie Ambroz; stepfather Harry "Tony" Denney. Organist will be Linda Peekenschneider with congregational hymns, "How Great Thou Art," "Rock of Ages," "The Old Rugged Cross." Casket bearers are Tom Buss, Tim Buss, Scott Stevens, Jared Baumann, Frank Arens, Tyler Wingate, Robbie Buss, Michael Sullivan Jr.\r\nHonorary casket bearers are Cindy Arens, Candi Wingate, Angie Stevens, Jennifer Baumann, Kari Buss, Beth Buss, Wendi Buss, Sue Buss, Sherry Buss, Amy Buss, Stacy Sullivan.

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Vivian Buss

April 16, 1919 - March 29, 2011