Shirley Virginia Vickers' Obituary
Shirley Brokaw Vickers was a very caring mother ,grandmother, wife and caregiver. She lost a three year battle with fatty liver disease and fought until the end. In her early years she was a very talented singer and after high school went to college in Dallas pursuing a music degree. Came home after a semester and met Don Vickers and soon after were married. They enjoyed fishing and taking vacations. Three years later came the first of two kids.
She loved doing things with her children and was a very loving and caring mother. Always there for them when they needed anything. In the 1980s she tried out for the Houston Symphony and made the chorus. She really was so proud to have made it. After she left the symphony she enjoyed going to church and directing and singing with the choir. Her son Don inherited her musical talent and began singing around Houston in the nineties and she and her husband very much enjoyed going to hear him sing on the weekends.
Her grandchildren were born not to long after and she was so in love with them. She was such a caring person, took care of her mother that was ill for a long time. She took care of neighbors that were ill. She was always looking out for others. She was raised up in the Methodist church and was a believer and raised her children as believers.
She was preceded in death by parents, John W. and Laura V. Brokaw; sister and brother-in-law, Carol and Javier Ulloa; son-in-law, Stephen Trejo, grandparents, Robert and Florence Diver; brother-in-law, Bowen Greever.
Shirley is survived by her husband, Don W. Vickers of Crosby, Texas; her daughter, Florence Trejo of Crosby, Texas; her son, Don E. Vickers and wife Tiffany Vickers of Crosby, Texas; sister, Andrea Greever, of Alloway, New Jersey; brothers, Robert D. Brokaw and wife Denise Brokaw of Rockport, Texas, and John M. Brokaw and Kyle of Anahuac, Texas; 2 grandchildren, Christiana Mustain and husband Bailey Mustain and Antonio Trejo; and great-grandchild, Stephen William Mustain; and other loving relatives and friends.
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