Violet M. Lund, age 81, died April 29, 2007 at Careage of Whidbey. She was born in Bonnard, Mont., on February 23, 1926 to Earl and Maude Winship.

Vi grew up in the Wapato Washington area, where she met her husband Burge and they married on October 29, 1945 in Sprague, Wash. Throughout their lives they made their homes in Washington, Sandpoint Idaho and Ashland, Ore.

Vi had many talents and loved the outdoors. She loved fishing, hunting, panning for gold, horses, and her children. There was nothing Vi could not do, including plumbing their log home in Idaho in the late 1950s, and taking over the farm when Burge was in a logging accident.

In 1969, they sold their home in Kenmore, Wash., and bought two 15-foot travel trailers and along with their three youngest children headed for Alaska. On their way they stopped on Whidbey Island to see some old friends and never left.

In 1970 Burge and Vi opened the Square Rigger Book Store on Front Street in Coupeville. Vi also was a cook at the Steak House and the Officers Club in Oak Harbor, and in Coupeville worked at the Sea Gull and the Tyee. Vi was also employed by the Coupeville School District as a bus driver.

In 1974, the family moved out to their farm on Smith Prairie where Vi lived her remaining years.

Her husband of 56 years Seymour Burge Lund and one son James Michael Lund, three brothers Royal, Orrin, Leslie; three sisters Tootsie, Pearl and Nora precedes Vi in death. Four of her children and their families survive her. Burge J. Lund of Hoquiam, Washington; Mark T. Lund (Bernice) of Graham, Washington; John W. Lund (Deborah) of Shelton Wash., and one daughter Sandra K. Morris of Coupeville, seven grandchildren, three great grandchildren and two great – great grandchildren.

Arrangements are entrusted to Burley Funeral Chapel.