Vivian T. Kane

Carrabelle resident Vivian Vernelle Thompson Kane brought her first spark to this world on March 20, 1930. Her inextinguishable light left peacefully on the evening of January 2, 2025 surrounded by two loving grandsons, a granddaughter, and her great grandson. She was born Vivian Thompson in Harbeson City, sister to the late Vernon Thompson, for whom the Carrabelle Airport is named. Harbeson City, which had a pulp wood and lumber mill at the time, no longer exists, having been transformed into Camp Gordon Johnston during World War II. When she was a young girl, much of the industry in the area fizzled, and the family moved to Carrabelle in 1932, where she attended high school. During a good portion of her adult years, she lived in Jacksonville, Florida before returning to Carrabelle permanently in 2011. Vivian was one of a kind and possessed the sharp intuition found in anyone who has lived and endured a life like hers. Her family confidently depended on her for love, support, and bountiful reminders to eat, get enough sleep, save money, and to cherish and value each other. She was everything a woman born in the Deep South at the start of the Great Depression would be. She loved her family and her little town of Carrabelle. She gossiped. She cared about a tidy home and appearance. She had complicated views about the world but also showed the capacity to grow, learn, and be better. She never owned a computer, hated cell phones, and continued to write handwritten notes and cards to her many loved ones and friends. She loved ballroom dancing, especially when it allowed her to be the center of attention at senior citizens dances. She always made sure to keep her people nourished, even while admonishing them to eat better, drink plenty of water, and always wear sunscreen. What made her happiest was time spent with her family, reveling in the good times and offering comfort in the bad. Vivian is preceded in death by her father Archie Monroe Thompson, mother Dolly Marie Carter Thompson, grandmother Julia Francis Thompson (who reared Vivian upon her mother’s early death), stepmother Ethel Roselia Wilson Thompson, brother Vernon Thompson, and husband Charlie Kane. Her legacy lives on in children Julia Franklin (Richard, deceased), Randall Yarborough (Sylvia), Ronald Yarborough (Teresa), Dolly Beasley (Jim); grandchildren Dr. John Franklin (Tia Levings), Jacob Franklin (Sara), Susan Bayer, Sherry Franklin, Jeremy Boone, Rebecca Boone-Childers, Carlton Brookes Yarborough (Lisa), Chase Yarborough, Beth Waldrop (Kyle), Brett Butler (Danielle), Karl Bayer; and great-grandchildren Kyle Bayer, Keely Franklin, Jordan Franklin, Logan McGee, Cora Childers, Mason Johnson, Pearson Waldrop, Charlie Butler, Beau Butler, Maddie Yarborough, Benny Yarborough, Anna Yarborough, and Colton Yarborough. In lieu of flowers, the family requests a donation be made to the Shriners Hospital for Children at lovetotherescue.org (http://lovetotherescue.org/) The family will receive friends on Friday, January 10, 2025, from 10:00-11:00 am at the Carrabelle First Assembly of God and the Funeral Service will begin at 11:00 am. Burial will immediately follow at the Evergreen Cemetery. Skip & Trey Young along with Paula and Kimberly are assisting the family.

Vivian T. Kane

March 20, 1930 - January 2, 2025