Vivian F. McNeill, an artist who worked in watercolors and acrylics, died June 5 of heart failure at Sunrise of Severna Park. She was 92.
The daughter of Fred Foote, who made electric motors, and Myrna Anderson Foote, a homemaker, Vivian Florence Foote was born and raised in Detroit.
She was a graduate of Volney Smith High School in Detroit, where she met Robert E. McNeill, whom she married in 1942.
After World War II, the couple moved to Baltimore, where Mr. McNeill earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. In 1958, they moved to Cape Arthur in Anne Arundel County.
Mrs. McNeill, who began studying painting in the late 1930s in Detroit, enrolled in college after her children were grown and earned an associate's degree in 1970 from Anne Arundel Community College.
She continued her art studies in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins, Maryland Institute College of Art and Anne Arundel Community College.
Mrs. McNeill painted Chesapeake Bay scenes, family portraits and scenes from her travels abroad.
She was an active member of Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, where she was a Sunday school teacher and served as its superintendent from 1962 to 1968.
She was active in the Boy Scouts and gave art classes. She also had been active in the Cape Arthur Improvement Association and the Cape Arthur Garden Club.
In addition to traveling, she enjoyed sailing the Chesapeake Bay.
Her husband, who was president of the engineering firm of McNeill and Baldwin, died in 2011.
A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. July 25 at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, 611 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd., in Severna Park.
She is survived by a son, Michael L. McNeill of Chester; a brother, Gordon A. Foote of Anderson, S.C.; and three grandchildren. Another son, Jeffrey S. McNeill, died in 2011.