Bill Text: TX SR13 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: In memory of LaVonn Jeanette Vickers Higgs of Lindale.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-01-18 - Reported enrolled [SR13 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR13-Introduced.html
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| 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. | ||
