Vivian F. Abraham passed away on October 31, 2011 at Bethesda Nursing Home in Beresford, SD. Services will be held Thursday, November 3 at 10:30 a.m. at Brule Creek Lutheran Church, Rural Elk Point, Visitation will be from 6PM to 7PM at Wass Funeral Home in Beresford with a prayer service at 7 p.m. She was born August 27, 1915 to Albert J. and Frances (Kutil) TePoel in Sioux City, Iowa. She graduated from Central HS and received a teaching certificate from Wayne State Teachers College in Nebraska. Her teaching career included country schools in the Merrill, IA area and Union County, SD; also at elementary schools in Elk Point, SD and Sioux City, IA. During her teaching career she received her Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the University of SD. She was married to Norman S. Abraham on July 24, 1936 in Blaire, NE. They made their home in Spink, SD. They were parents of Kenneth, Keith and Norma Jean. Grateful for sharing her life are her daughter and son-in-law Norma and Lowell Wetrosky, of Brandon, SD; son Kenneth and daughter-in-law Diane of Claremore, OK, daughter-in-law Diane Abraham of Elk Point, SD; 11 grandchildren: Steve (Barb) Wetrosky, Deanna (John) Uphoff, Todd (Amanda) Wetrosky, Eric (Mitzi) Abraham, Lisa (Keith) Hemmingson, Monica (Brad) Sowells, Angela (Kevin) Ford, Dana (Jason) Boke, Brad Abraham, Tim Abraham, Darin (Amanda) Abraham, 20 great-grandchildren, 1 great, great-grandchild; sister-in-law Dorothy Robinson, Elk Point, and 8 nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Norman (2003), son Keith (2008), a granddaughter Sheila Wetrosky (1976), and her brother and sister-in-law, Clarence TePoel (1987) and Arline TePoel (2011).