Vivian Wolfe Fennell, formerly of Quogue, died on April 27 in Dunwoody, Georgia. She was 95.
Born March 25, 1920, in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, to Arthur and Eleanor Wolfe, she grew up in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in 1942. She married James T. Williams, with whom she had daughters Gene and Christine. After his service in the U.S. Army during World War II, the family moved to Washington, D.C., and then the New York City area. Mr. Williams died in 1954.
In 1957, she married George W. Fennell in Greenwich, Connecticut, which is where their sons, John and Larry, were born. Upon Mr. Fennell’s retirement in 1993, they moved from Purchase to their Quogue home. A few years after Mr. Fennell’s death in 2009, Ms. Fennell moved to the Dunwoody area.
Ms. Fennell is survived by her children, Gene Schuh and husband Bill of Dunwoody, Christine Fennell and John Fennell, both of California, and Larry Fennell and wife Maria Luisa Germani of Seattle; seven grandchildren, Bill Schuh and wife Ann, Tina Schuh, Jenny Spalding and husband Sean, Chloe Weise, Stone, Michaela and Tomasso Fennell; and four great-grandchildren, Kelly and Oliver Spalding and Will and Vivian Schuh.
No local services are planned at this time.
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