Vivian was born in St. Louis, MO, the daughter of Albert Leslie Lewis and Frances Zoe Jennings Lewis. She graduated from Hadley vocational school in St. Louis in 1940, where she was trained as a stenographer, while earning a little income for the family helping out around the school.
Vivian met her future husband, Phil Enriquez in St. Louis while he was stationed at a nearby army base, Fort Leonard Wood. Her son, Philip M. Enriquez, was born in St. Louis in 1944.
Shortly after her husband’s discharge from the army in 1945, the family relocated to Indio, CA in Southern California. She worked for the United States Department of Agriculture Date and Citrus Station over 25 years as a stenographer, ultimately rising to station office manager. When the station closed, she was offered a promotion to a supervisory position and a transfer to USDA offices in Berkeley, CA. Instead, she opted to retire and stay on in the family home in Indio.
Her husband died in 1975, and she never remarried. In 2009, she relocated to Morgan Hill, residing at 75 W. Second Street, to be near her immediate family.
Her hobby was cultivating cactus and succulents, turning her back yard in Morgan Hill into an exotic cactus garden, and she delighted in cooking and helping anyway she could with the family business.
She adopted Morgan Hill as her home, helped by the kindness and friendliness of her neighbors on West Second Street, and of the people she would meet on her daily walks around town with her little dog Sassy.
She died peacefully in her bed asleep while taking a late morning nap. Vivian was 87 years old.
She is survived by her son Philip Maury Enriquez, daughter-in-law Marian E. Sacco both residing in Morgan Hill, a grand daughter Nicolyna Marie Enriquez who is currently in graduate school in London, England, and a grandson, Daniel Raphael Enriquez, who is currently attending Buchnell University in Pennsylvania.
Vivian’s wish was not to have formal services. Instead, a small private celebration of her life will be held in Indio, CA, the town where she lived most of her life.
