Vickie Edwards

Vickie began her journey on October 5, 1953 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She completed it on January 1, 2016 in Hanford, California with her husband, Randy, by her side. Her daughter, Marissa, was home with her Mom and Dad for the Holidays. Vickie was full of love, laughter, and joy, and shared all of that with those around her. She made our lives better by her mere presence. Her and Randy had a beautiful marriage of 40 years and knew each other for 47 years, ever since they were sophomores at Palmer High School in Colorado Springs. She asked him out on their first date to a Sadie Hawkins dance. It was his lucky day. They celebrated that date every year.

Vickie went to college at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado. She married Randy after college and travelled the world with him while he was in the Marine Corps. She volunteered for the Red Cross and became an LVN while they lived at Camp Pendleton, CA. They were then stationed in Rota, Spain where Marissa was born. Later they moved to Hanford when Marissa was four. Vickie was a Super Mom, doing everything for and with her child while building a wonderful and close family. She did it all with ease and grace. Even if she was kind of annoying by driving Marissa around in circles in the cul de sac in the old Volvo wagon when she was a little girl.

Shortly after Marissa got her driver’s license, according to Vickie, she found herself sitting around in her underwear watching episodes of Law and Order on TV, sometimes the same episode twice in one day. She was bored and she figured she had worked herself out of a job as Marissa became more independent in her high school years. So she decided to go back to school and became a Registered Nurse. She worked at Adventist Medical Center in Med/Surg on Three South. She enjoyed caring for her patients (well, most of them) and she enjoyed her circle of friends and medical colleagues (well, most of them).

These were some of Vickie’s favorite things: Collecting things, reading (voraciously), travelling, Colorado, Yosemite, the Southwest, Birthdays, the beach, cooking, music, old television shows, movies, Labrador Retrievers, her friends, Thanksgiving, learning about other people with a genuine interest and concern and her family.

She could make anybody smile and had a great sense of humor, a zest for life, and a tremendous memory. She truly lived a wonderful life and made ours also. There is now a deep and abiding hole in the world where she once was. We weren’t ready to let her go. Hers was a life well lived, but far too short. We wish her fair winds and following seas.

For some odd reason, she enjoyed reading obituaries. I hope she likes this one. We love you, Vick!

A Celebration Of Vickie’s Life will be held on Saturday, January 16 at 12:00 PM at the First United Methodist Church; 505 N. Redington St., Hanford, CA 93230. Dress is casual, as she would have wanted.

In lieu of flowers please make donations in her name to the Quilts of Valor Foundation; P.O. Box 191 Winterset, IA 50273 (The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor.). Alternatively you can make a donation to your local ASPCA. She loved all animals, great and small.

For Friends and Family in Colorado we will be having a separate ceremony to spread her ashes in a place of beauty in her beloved home state later in the spring or summer.

Family and Friends are invited to view Vickie’s legacy at www.peoplesfuneralchapel.com and send condolences to the family.

Services are under the direction of People’s Funeral Chapel.

PEOPLE’S FUNERAL CHAPEL

501 N. Douty Street * Hanford, CA 93230

559-584-5591 * www.peoplesfuneralchapel.com