Vivian Ethel Birdsall Yotty, 87, died Sept. 9, 2010 at Tacoma General Hospital with her family at her side.
She was born Feb. 7, 1923 in Berthold, N.D. to Sam and Clara Birdsall. Her family moved to Sweet Home in 1934, where she attended Long Street Grade School in grades six through eight and graduated in 1941 from Sweet Home Union High School.
In May 1944 she graduated from Oregon College of Education. That same…