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