Vivian A. Gross

Vivian was born August 26,1931in Breckenridge,Texas to Herbert Doran and Opal Faye McKinney Shahan. The family moved to Fort Worth, Texas where Vivian attended Carter-Riverside High School. Upon graduation she married Johnny Tex Carter and started her family, having two sons.

Vivian worked as a bookkeeper for FAA/GSA government agencies,as a secretary in Birdville ISD, and ran her own business, Gross Steel with her second husband.

She was a devoted wife, mother, sister and friend.

She was preceeded in death by her parents, husband (Barry Gross), sister (Vina Faye Parsons), and brother (Terry Buchan).

SURVIVORS: Sons, Clyde Carter(Sandra) and John Carter(Shonda) Grandchildren, Beverly Bybee (Joe), Brandon Carter (Melissa), Rachel Willis (Allen), Tianti Carter, John Chastain (Kelly), Jeremy Blackwell(Sara) and Kenneth Finder.Nephew, Randall Parsons. And numerous step-children, step-granchildren, and great grandchildren.

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Vivian A. Shahan Carter Gross, 87, passed away Wednesday, December 26,2018

Vivian was born August 26, 1931 in Breckenridge, Texas to Herbert Doran and Opal Faye McKinney Shahan. The family moved to Fort Worth, Texas where Vivian attended Carter-Riverside High School. Upon graduation she married Johnny Tex Carter and started her family, having two sons.

Vivian worked as a bookkeeper for FAA/GSA government agencies, as a secretary in Birdville ISD, and ran her own business, Gross Steel with her second husband.

She was a devoted wife, mother, sister and friend.

She was preceeded in death by her parents, husband (Barry Gross), sister (Vina Faye Parsons), and brother (Terry Buchan).

SURVIVORS: Sons, Clyde Carter(Sandra) and John Carter(Shonda) Grandchildren, Beverly Bybee (Joe), Brandon Carter (Melissa), Rachel Willis (Allen), Tianti Carter, John Chastain (Kelly), Jeremy Blackwell(Sara) and Kenneth Finder. Nephew, Randall Parsons. And numerous step-children, step-granchildren, and great grandchildren.

FUNERAL: Sunday, January 6,2019; 2p.m. at Bluebonnet Hills Funeral Home in Colleyville, TX. Visitation at 1p.m. with interment at Bluebonnet Cemetery. Pastor Jeremy Blackwell will officiate.

She will be missed by all.