Vivian Maledy

Vivian Maledy was born Vivian Nunes on December 17, 1927 in Santa Barbara County. She is the youngest of four children and the only daughter. Her parents owned a dairy farm in Casmalia, California. Her father was from the Azores, the Portuguese archipelago, and her mother was born in Cayucos, California, a beach town within San Luis Obispo County. In the fall of 1943, Vivian Nunes entered Santa Maria High School as a freshman. She was a Santa Maria 'Saint', as the school's mascot is known. She graduated from Santa ...