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2025 11 16 – A Day in the Life #278 but who’s counting

Viva Anne Deaton Saunders (Jones) – Celebration of life November 16, 2025

Viva Anne Deaton Saunders (Jones). 82. of Murrells Inlet, S.C., passed away peacefully at her home on October 31. 2025. She was born or November 18, 1942, in Troy, N.C., to Ernest Lee Deaton Sr. and Maddie Viva Deaton of Troy.

Viva is survived by her daughter, Aimee Cochran. and her husband, Daniel; two grandchildren, Christopher Cochran and his wife. Elizabeth of Murrells Inlet. SC Ashley Aldridge and her husband, Jacob, of Denver Colorado.

Viva retired from North Carolina State University as the head of Admissions and was part owner of Cary Art and Frame in Cary, N.C.

She loved taking long walks on the beach, collecting seashells. shark teeth. and sea glass along the way.

A Service of Celebration will be held at 3:00 p.m. or Saturday, November 15, at First Wesleyan Church in Troy, N.C

God bless.

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2025 11 01 – A Day in the Life #264 (but who’s counting?)

Aimee and I visited with Mc Millan-Small Funeral Home today at the early bloody hour of 9am after 72 hours of limited sleep so that the final arrangements of Viva Anne Deaton Saunders (Jones) could be completed. They were “short staffed” and thus Aimee couldn’t see her mother for the final times prior to the service.

The first cousin in Troy, North Carolina we just got to know in the last couple of years, surprisingly, is setting up a service without any input from Aimee the ONLY living family member. This “kind-hearted” help, unrequested and partly needed, is over fucking stepping their bounds by miles. This isn’t the first time this person that has appeared out of no where after knowing the Deaton, Saunders and Jones for well over 40 years wants to control what the heck is the the “end-of-life” for Aimee and Viva’s time on Earth? That my friend is a major, WTF – BTFO Please!

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2025 07 23 – A Day in the Life (163 days)

CONWAY, South Carolina – Since Sandra’s passing and Mickey’s data dump on me, I’ve been working on the family tree. *Rolls Eyes*

Just the Cochran (male) line blows out to this after several clean-ups and “deep-dive document” research.

I’m printing (copying source) in a ‘both-sides’ format where applicable. The ‘family group’ paperwork cannot really be done in 2 sided as much as I wish it could. *sigh* Then I send a digital copy of the paper copies.

It is amazing how much paperwork is out there in history once you start looking. Be fruitful and multiple as commanded by our Lord/God. To read the “Will and Testament” left in some of the records you would be amazed at how “Non-PC” the language in our public records. It is not a surprise to me since God is first in my family lineage on all sides of the families.

More to come after we (aka me/myself/and I) clean it all up with citations only, if possible. Thanks Mickey, Woots, and Mammy for the information.

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2025 07 19 – A Day in the Life

With the data dump I got from our recent passing, I restarted my Ancestry.com account back up for at least a month or so to get this new data into the systems. And they have upgraded the systems a lot since 2020 when I stopped working on the rather massive tree with so many branches.

Timothy got updated and others.

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