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Obituary: Sam Bivens, senior engineer at IMO for 33 years COLUMBIAMAGAZINE.COM OBITUARIES Mr. Bivens was the senior engineer for 33 years at IMO. He did his part for his country in Vietnam and will be accorded military honors. He was successful in his career and life. Besides his family and work, his deep and abiding passion was sports. He gave unstintingly to Adair County football programs. He had adopted Adair County and Adair Countians adopted him. The flag at IMO is at half staff this January, in his honor. His wife, Donna Vanarsdale Bivens survives. A man who meant so much to this community, Sam Bivens, 61, 723 Mitchell Street, Columbia, KY passedaway Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 4:55amCT, at the Summit Manor Healthand Rehab Center in Columbia after several months illness. The funeral service for Mr. Bivens will be Saturday, January 5, 2008, at 1:00pmCT at Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home, 210 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY, with Bro. Bobby Withers & Bro. Scott Ezell the officiating clergy. Interment in the Haven Hill Cemetery with military honors by VFW Post 6097. The family requests visitation after 3:00pmCT, Friday, January 4, 2007, at Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home, 210 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY. He was the son of the late G. C. and Daisy Spivey Bivens of Jefferson City, TN. He is survived by his wife, Donna Vanarsdale Bivens, Columbia, KY, and the following:
Sam was employed by IMO Industries for 33 years as a senior engineer. In his memory, and made a lasting impression on his colleagues there. The flag will fly at half staff in front of the plant during the month of January. The employees at IMO issued the following statement: He gave countless hours to Adair County Youth Sports Programs He was a longtime baseball umpire for Adair County High School and Adair County Little League and umpired in surrounding counties, he was also an assistant coach for the Adair County Football Program and volunteered countless hours to Adair County Youth Sports Programs. "I didn't know what he did for a living or where he came from, just that it must have been somewhere in Tennesee. All I ever heard Sam talk about was football," David Herbst of the Columbia Parks & Recreation Board said on hearing of Bivens' death tonight. He showed deep loyalty. Even if for the wrong cause. He was a Tennessee Vol fan, and made sure everybody knew it. "He took a lot of ribbing here because he always flaunted his University of Tennessee orange, but here in Wildcat Country, he was loved just the same, maybe all the more, for his loyalty," Herbst said. "He was rarely seen without wearing some Big Orange, sometimes he was covered in it," Herbst said. "Once he appeared not to have any, and he was kidded about it. 'Oh yes,' Sam said. 'I've got Orange.' We were afraid he had an undergarment with Tennessee on it. But he reached in his pocket and pulled out his cell phone, with a UT Volunteer cover painted on it. And everybody laughed. We were never able to catch him with something Tennessee." He was the kind of person one only had to meet once to remember. He had an easy going way. He had a way of making everyone he met happier for having known him. He came from Jefferson City, Tennessee. But here, in Columbia, Kentucky, he will always be remembered as one of us, a true and beloved, through and through, Adair Countian. He was a good man, whose presence will be sorely missed. This story was posted on 2008-01-03 21:56:03
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