Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameVivian Lucile ANDERSEN 
3437, p 2
3437, p 2Death8 Jun 2019, Petaluma, Sonoma, California Age: 93
MemoPer email from Mary Honer, 10 June 2019
NicknameLucille3406, p 4
FatherAnders Malté ANDERSEN (1885-1934)
MotherVivian Etta WALDRON (1890-1988)
Individual Notes
• Needless to say, when the Downings were able to make arrangements for her to get into a nursing school in Canada, Lucile was delighted. Ivy Downing was a Canadian and had graduated from Hamilton General Hospital Nursing School which was affiliated with McMasters University in Ontario, Canada. With her help, Lucile was admitted. Being British, Lucile could attend school in Canada without problems of visas and immigration. The school provided room, board and tuition. The students were even given thirteen dollars a month spending money. What more could she ask for?3409, p 112
• Lucile entered into church and social activities, which provided her with some interesting and interested dates. She had become an attractive young lady, having trimmed down considerably in nurses training, after fighting with an overweight problem most of her life. She was pursued by doctors, and lawyers, but lost her heart to a young German named Marvin Highstreet. Alfred Highstreet had bought a dairy in California when he got out of the service, and for a while both brothers, John and Marvin, worked for him. Lucile and Marvin became engaged and were married April 14, 1951, at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Compton, and moved into their own place. Again, that created a problem for our living situation since, without Lucile's contribution, we could not afford this larger apartment.3409, p 128
• Lucile entered into church and social activities, which provided her with some interesting and interested dates. She had become an attractive young lady, having trimmed down considerably in nurses training, after fighting with an overweight problem most of her life. She was pursued by doctors, and lawyers, but lost her heart to a young German named Marvin Highstreet. Alfred Highstreet had bought a dairy in California when he got out of the service, and for a while both brothers, John and Marvin, worked for him. Lucile and Marvin became engaged and were married April 14, 1951, at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Compton, and moved into their own place. Again, that created a problem for our living situation since, without Lucile's contribution, we could not afford this larger apartment.3409, p 128
Spouses
Birth24 May 1922, Lennox, Lincoln, South Dakota3425, p 3; date only
Death20 May 2009, Sebastopol, Sonoma, California3452, date only,3453, place only Age: 86
BurialRose Hills Cemetery, Whittier, Los Angeles, California3454
Occupationdairyman (retired)3406, p 4
FatherFred HIGHSTREET (~1894-)
MotherLena Kartrina (~1897-)
Individual Notes
• I just got a call from Mary Honer saying that Marvin Highstreet passed away Friday morning early. He had been in hospital with heart problems, and was getting better, so he was moved to the Nursing Home where Lucile used to work. The children and Lucile visited him there. Lucile was helping change the sheets of his bed with Marvin assisting, and Marvin slipped and fell. He broke the socket of his hip and so had to be put back together by surgery. He then got pneumonia and couldn't catch his breath and died early morning.
Mary said that when he was in the hospital he called each of his kids to his bedside and told them that he had had a dream that showed him in Heaven. The only ones that were with him were Lucile, Shirley and Kathy, so he asked each where they stood as to salvation? Two of the others affirmed their salvation, so he told them all to make sure they were in.
The kids will need to decide where Lucile lives. Mary thinks she can't live alone, as she is to unstable on her feet. Likely she will need to go live with Alan. We will need to wait and see. The funeral will be in Petaluma, but the burial plot is in Rose Hills.
Love, Dad3454
• Hi Dave,
How easily stories get distorted! Marvin was told by doctors a while back that he needed heart surgery. He declined and chose not to do it because it was felt he might not be strong enough to stand the surgery.
He was helping Lucile make a bed at home and tripped breaking the ishiem (part of the pelvis). Sarah and Hector managed to get him but but eventually had to call for and ambulance to get him to hospital. There was no way to do surgery or anything about the bone. He developed pneumonia but seemed to be coming along on the Monday of Lucile's birthday. He was alert and even got up in a chair for a little while. He died Wed. 1 AM.
Bob and Margaret, Ted and I went up last Friday and stayed until Monday so got to see him before he died. He knew us and interacted a bit.
His birthday was May 24, and he would have been 86. At least that is what we were told...maybe our book is wrong?
As for the story. Marvin dreamed that the only ones in heaven with him were Shirley and Phyllis...neither of them walking with the Lord. When he told them about his dream Shirley assured him she would they would be there. What that means we do wonder, but trust the thought will bear fruit.
I suppose getting the story straight is not really that important. Just reminds me of playing post office!
Mary3452
Mary said that when he was in the hospital he called each of his kids to his bedside and told them that he had had a dream that showed him in Heaven. The only ones that were with him were Lucile, Shirley and Kathy, so he asked each where they stood as to salvation? Two of the others affirmed their salvation, so he told them all to make sure they were in.
The kids will need to decide where Lucile lives. Mary thinks she can't live alone, as she is to unstable on her feet. Likely she will need to go live with Alan. We will need to wait and see. The funeral will be in Petaluma, but the burial plot is in Rose Hills.
Love, Dad3454
• Hi Dave,
How easily stories get distorted! Marvin was told by doctors a while back that he needed heart surgery. He declined and chose not to do it because it was felt he might not be strong enough to stand the surgery.
He was helping Lucile make a bed at home and tripped breaking the ishiem (part of the pelvis). Sarah and Hector managed to get him but but eventually had to call for and ambulance to get him to hospital. There was no way to do surgery or anything about the bone. He developed pneumonia but seemed to be coming along on the Monday of Lucile's birthday. He was alert and even got up in a chair for a little while. He died Wed. 1 AM.
Bob and Margaret, Ted and I went up last Friday and stayed until Monday so got to see him before he died. He knew us and interacted a bit.
His birthday was May 24, and he would have been 86. At least that is what we were told...maybe our book is wrong?
As for the story. Marvin dreamed that the only ones in heaven with him were Shirley and Phyllis...neither of them walking with the Lord. When he told them about his dream Shirley assured him she would they would be there. What that means we do wonder, but trust the thought will bear fruit.
I suppose getting the story straight is not really that important. Just reminds me of playing post office!
Mary3452
Census
• 1930 Census: Home Twp, Turner, South Dakota. Age 6, b SD. Parents b SD. Listed as Marvin Hoogestraat.3455
Marriage14 Apr 1951, Compton, Los Angeles, California3425, p 3,3456, date only,3409, p 128
Marr MemoEmmanuel Baptist Church
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