Vivian Louise Lyons Patten, of Port St. Joe, Fla., formerly of Atmore, died Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Port St. Joe.
Mrs. Patten was a native of Atmore and graduate of Escambia County Training School who received a Bachelors and Masters degrees from Alabama State University in Montgomery. Teaching school in Greenville, Miss. and Atmore before relocating to Port St. Joe, she retired with 47 years of service in 2004. A member of the Gulf-Franklin Retired Teachers Association, she started one of the first African-American tutlorial programs in the North St. Joe communi...