The Treadway's

Vivian Hatfield Treadway

Dawson, West Virginia — Vivian Hatfield Treadway (87) of Dawson, began her journey with a shout running down the golden streets of Glory in Heaven on Sunday Morning, December 5, 2010. She was born on May 31, 1923, at Colcord, West Virginia.
Loved ones waiting and cheering her on were her husband of 70 years, Lonnie Ralph, son Ralph Eugene, and daughter Marion Kathaleen. Among others who preceded her to Heavens Gates were her father Homer Ray Hatfield, mother Icie Mae Dillon Hatfield, birth mother Luranie Mae Bowen, brothers Ray and Philip Hatfield, Woodrow Taylor and Harry (Gene) Holstein, and sisters Maxine Smith, Bernice Dickens, and Martha and Violet Wolfe.
Family members waiting to join her are ten children: Vonda (David) Thomas of Brownstown, Michigan; Ruth (Dan) Cadle of Newton Falls, Ohio; David (Julie) of Newberry, Florida; Daniel (Alice) of Providence, Kentucky; Lonnie Wayne (Marcia) of Rainelle; Barbara (Elliott) Slaughter of Dublin, Virginia; Tim of Christiansburg, Virginia; Rita (Blain) McClanahan of Meadow Bridge; Trish (Danny) Hutsenpiller of Dawson; and Steve (Teresa) of Dawson; seven sisters: Naomi Binion, Blanche Cooley, Juanita Wade, Sue Tackett, Helen Wingo, Geraldine Dorsey and Hazel Goodsen; 25 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; 2 great-great-grandchildren; a host of nieces and nephews; and many, many friends.
A list of her achievements would fill numerous pages, but she will be remembered first and foremost as a child of God. Not only was Jesus her Savior, He was her Lord. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. As Proverbs 31:28 says: “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.” All who loved her knew her as a faithful servant and prayer warrior, but the words she used to describe herself were, as the Apostle Paul said, “by the grace of God I am what I am.” She was greatly beloved and left a spiritual legacy to all those who knew her.
A celebration of her life and victory race will be held at The Grassy Meadows Gospel Lighthouse in Grassy Meadows, West Virginia, for family and friends, on Wednesday December 8, 2010, from 6 until 9 p.m. Pastor Butch LeGrand will be presiding over the funeral ceremony to be held at The Gospel Lighthouse at 11 a.m. on Thursday December 9, 2010. She will be buried beside her husband at the Puckett Cemetery in Crag, West Virginia.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations of sympathy to The Grassy Meadows Gospel Lighthouse Building Fund, P. O. Box 218, Mabscott, WV 25871.
Online condolences may be sent to www.christianmemorials.com/tributes/vivian-treadway
Sons-in-law David (honorary), Dan, Elliott, Blain and Danny will serve as pallbearers.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to Wallace & Wallace, The Grassy Meadows Gospel Lighthouse, Kanawha HospiceCare, The Meadow Grove Baptist Church, Dr. Connie Anderson, Nurse Kim Winfrey, Sally Berry, and the numerous friends and family that helped our Mother make ready for her journey.