Jilian Barbara Rivet
AMARILLO, Texas – Jilian Barbara Rivet, 51, of Amarillo, Texas, daughter of Gretchen Gundlach and Gilles Rivet, died quietly in her home after a long illness.
Jilian was born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 23, 1963. She attended schools in Framingham, Massachusetts, transferred to Pine Crest School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and graduated from Interlake High School in Bellevue, Washington. A brilliant student, she attended Arizona State University and graduated Magna Cum laude from Utah State University. For many years she was an executive at Pacific Scientific in Tempe, Arizona, where she built a home and lived until moving to Amarillo, Texas where she retired.
Jilian is survived by her mother, Gretchen; sisters, Michelle Rivet and Julie Rivet; niece, Hannah Gundlach; aunts, Janna, Julie and Martha Gundlach; cousins, Shelley and Sherrie Guse.
Preceding Jilian in death is her brother, Gil Marc; father, Gilles J. Rivet; grandparents, Herman “Winks” Gundlach and Barbara Kettle Gundlach.
Jilian’s life was memorialized in a private ceremony in Houghton.
In remembrance friends may gift the Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter Home.