Bill Text: TX SR13 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: In memory of LaVonn Jeanette Vickers Higgs of Lindale.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-01-18 - Reported enrolled [SR13 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR13-Introduced.html
88R8603 CW-D | ||
By: Hughes | S.R. No. 13 |
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WHEREAS, Family and friends will long cherish their memories | ||
of LaVonn Jeanette Vickers Higgs of Lindale, who passed away on | ||
January 14, 2022, at the age of 87; and | ||
WHEREAS, The daughter of Leonard and Ellen Johnson, the | ||
former LaVonn Johnson was born on July 6, 1934, in McPherson, | ||
Kansas, and she grew up on a farm in the Swedish community of New | ||
Gottland alongside her twin sister, LaVerna, and three other | ||
siblings, Eleanor, Merlyn, and Janus; after graduating from | ||
McPherson High School, she continued her education at Tyler Junior | ||
College; and | ||
WHEREAS, She worked as a telephone operator for a decade in | ||
McPherson, where she met her future husband, the late Edward | ||
Lawrence Vickers, and she transferred to Tyler after they married; | ||
over the succeeding years, she devoted herself to her home and to | ||
raising her daughters, Sharon and Sandra; she served on the PTA for | ||
Dixie Elementary School and Stewart Junior High School, and she | ||
also held offices with the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance | ||
Society and volunteered for hospice; a woman of faith, she was a | ||
valued congregant of Noonday Baptist Church in Tyler, and she | ||
played the organ and piano for a number of area churches; with the | ||
passing years, she had the privilege of seeing her family grow to | ||
include four grandchildren, Andrea, Brian, Jared, and Jacob, and | ||
three great-grandchildren, Camden, Luke, and Marshall; and | ||
WHEREAS, LaVonn Higgs possessed a generosity of spirit that | ||
expressed itself in myriad ways, and she enriched the lives of | ||
countless people with her warmth and kindness; now, therefore, be | ||
it | ||
RESOLVED, That the Senate of the 88th Texas Legislature | ||
hereby pay tribute to the memory of LaVonn Jeanette Vickers Higgs | ||
and extend sincere condolences to all who mourn her passing; and, be | ||
it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for her family and that when the Texas Senate adjourns this | ||
day, it do so in memory of LaVonn Higgs. |