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About Vivian Dorraine Distin
Vivian Liberto Cash Distin (April 23, 1934 – May 24, 2005) was an American homemaker, author, and the first wife of singer Johnny Cash.
Born and raised around San Antonio, Texas, Liberto was the daughter of Irene (Robinson) and Thomas Peter Liberto. Her paternal grandparents were from Cefalù, Palermo, Sicily. Her mother was German and Irish.[1] Genealogists from the show Finding Your Roots discovered that one of her maternal great-great-grandmothers, Sarah A. Shields, was a mixed-race woman born into slavery, who was freed along with her eight siblings by their white father.[2]
Vivian met Cash at a roller-skating rink in 1951 when he was based at Brooks Air Force Base. [3][4] The couple courted for three weeks before the Air Force deployed Cash to West Germany for a three-year tour. During the separation, the couple exchanged thousands of letters that would eventually form the basis for Liberto’s book I Walked the Line, which was published in 2007.[5]
On August 7, 1954, Liberto and Cash were married at St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church in San Antonio, one month after his discharge from the Air Force. Together they had four daughters: Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy, and Tara.[6] The couple divorced in 1966 after twelve years of marriage. In 1968 Liberto married Dick Distin, a police officer in Ventura, California, to whom she remained married until her death on May 24, 2005, following complications from lung cancer surgery.
Liberto's story has become the basis of a 2020 documentary film, My Darling Vivian, which premiered as part of the South by Southwest 2020 Film Festival Collection, presented by Prime Video.[7]
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Vivian Dorraine Distin's Timeline
| 1934 |
April 23, 1934
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San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, United States
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| 1955 |
May 24, 1955
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Memphis, , Tennessee
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| 2005 |
May 24, 2005
Age 71
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Ventura, Ventura County, California, United States
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2005
Age 70
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Ventura, Ventura County, California, United States
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