From the March 2008 Peg-Board

Painter and union activist VIVIAN BYRNE died on March 11 at the age of ninety-five. From 1955 until her retirement in 1975 she worked for Warners, Lantz, Filmation and Hanna-Barbera. Along with her husband, the late assistant animator Tom Byrne, she served several terms as a Local 839 Executive Board member and convention delegate, and she served as a Hanna-Barbera shop steward