SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 13
In Memory
of
LaVonn Jeanette Vickers Higgs
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 State of Texas, 88th
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.
Hughes
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President of the Senate
I hereby certify that the
above Resolution was adopted by
the Senate on January 18, 2023, by
a rising vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
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Member, Texas Senate