| 1 | 1 | | 88R8603 CW-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Hughes S.R. No. 13 |
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| 5 | 5 | | R E S O L U T I O N |
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| 6 | 6 | | WHEREAS, Family and friends will long cherish their memories |
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| 7 | 7 | | of LaVonn Jeanette Vickers Higgs of Lindale, who passed away on |
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| 8 | 8 | | January 14, 2022, at the age of 87; and |
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| 9 | 9 | | WHEREAS, The daughter of Leonard and Ellen Johnson, the |
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| 10 | 10 | | former LaVonn Johnson was born on July 6, 1934, in McPherson, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Kansas, and she grew up on a farm in the Swedish community of New |
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| 12 | 12 | | Gottland alongside her twin sister, LaVerna, and three other |
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| 13 | 13 | | siblings, Eleanor, Merlyn, and Janus; after graduating from |
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| 14 | 14 | | McPherson High School, she continued her education at Tyler Junior |
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| 15 | 15 | | College; and |
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| 16 | 16 | | WHEREAS, She worked as a telephone operator for a decade in |
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| 17 | 17 | | McPherson, where she met her future husband, the late Edward |
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| 18 | 18 | | Lawrence Vickers, and she transferred to Tyler after they married; |
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| 19 | 19 | | over the succeeding years, she devoted herself to her home and to |
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| 20 | 20 | | raising her daughters, Sharon and Sandra; she served on the PTA for |
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| 21 | 21 | | Dixie Elementary School and Stewart Junior High School, and she |
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| 22 | 22 | | also held offices with the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance |
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| 23 | 23 | | Society and volunteered for hospice; a woman of faith, she was a |
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| 24 | 24 | | valued congregant of Noonday Baptist Church in Tyler, and she |
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| 25 | 25 | | played the organ and piano for a number of area churches; with the |
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| 26 | 26 | | passing years, she had the privilege of seeing her family grow to |
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| 27 | 27 | | include four grandchildren, Andrea, Brian, Jared, and Jacob, and |
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| 28 | 28 | | three great-grandchildren, Camden, Luke, and Marshall; and |
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| 29 | 29 | | WHEREAS, LaVonn Higgs possessed a generosity of spirit that |
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| 30 | 30 | | expressed itself in myriad ways, and she enriched the lives of |
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| 31 | 31 | | countless people with her warmth and kindness; now, therefore, be |
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| 32 | 32 | | it |
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| 33 | 33 | | RESOLVED, That the Senate of the 88th Texas Legislature |
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| 34 | 34 | | hereby pay tribute to the memory of LaVonn Jeanette Vickers Higgs |
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| 35 | 35 | | and extend sincere condolences to all who mourn her passing; and, be |
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| 36 | 36 | | it further |
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| 37 | 37 | | RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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| 38 | 38 | | prepared for her family and that when the Texas Senate adjourns this |
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| 39 | 39 | | day, it do so in memory of LaVonn Higgs. |
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