Submitted by: John C. Monk

Vivien B. Bushnell

Nov. 30, 1912 - Mar. 18, 2010
SOUTH BEND - Vivien B. Bushnell, 97, formerly of South Bend, Indiana, died at Bell Trace, Bloomington, Indiana on March 18, 2010. Vivien was born on December 1, 1912 in Lime Rock, CT to Wendell J. Bacon and Linda L. Griesbach. On July 6, 1936 in Naugatuck, CT as Vivien May Bacon she was married to Lester P. Bushnell of Chicago, IL. She was preceded in death by her husband Lester, two daughters, Jean Alice and Leslie Ann, two sisters Eunice Pearson and Linda Kolb, both of Massachusetts. Surviving are their daughter Beverly Baker and her husband Michael R. Baker of Bloomington, IN, a grand daughter Leslie Erin Baker Lowell and husband Brandon Lowell of Bloomington, a sister Ruth Solberg of Cape Cod, MA, and a brother Wendell A. Bacon of Tempe, AZ. She was a member of 1st Presbyterian Church of South Bend since 1956, a member of 1st Presbyterian Women, PEO, and Woman's Auxiliary of Memorial Hospital before moving to Bloomington in 2002. A brief service will be held at Allen Funeral Home, 4155 South Old Highway 37, Bloomington, IN., 1 pm Monday March 22. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Wonderlab Museum of Science Health and Technoligy or Middle Way House, both of Bloomington, IN. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.allenfuneralhome.org.

Published in South Bend Tribune on March 20, 2010