Born on August 25, 1888, in Louisiana, Jeanne Vivienne Cieutat was the first child born to Victor Cieutat and Josephine Spitzfaden. She grew up in St. Bernard Parish in New Orleans, LA.
Vivienne married Gaston Joseph Dauterive on June 10, 1908, in New Orleans and they had 9 children: Gaston Joseph Jr. (1909), Neville (1911), Janette (1914), Dorothy (1915), Getrude (1917), Victor (1918), Roberta Ruth (1919), Rene C. (1923), and Lucille.
Gaston died on March 30, 1948, and Vivienne did not remarry. She died in September of 1972 in Arabi, LA, at the age of 84.