88R8603 CW-D
By: Hughes S.R. No. 13
R E S O L U T I O N
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.