Norma Jean Vickers
Norma Jean Vickers
Norma Jean Vickers
,
72
,
died on Monday,
May 14, 2012, at a Nampa care facility.
She was born May 18
,
1939 in Filer
,
Idaho to Charles
Price Vickers and Margaret Cortner Vickers. The divorce of her parents when she
was three years old resulted in a move to Twin Falls
,
then to
Henderson
,
Nevada to the first stepfather situation
,
then back to
Twin Falls
,
then to Tullahoma
,
Tennessee
,
then Twin Falls,
and then to a farm about halfway between Ganne
t
t and Picabo
,
Idaho to a
second stepfather situatio
n
.
She attended school in Bellevue,
Idaho from the th
i
rd grade through the eighth grade
.
The n
i
nth grade was in
Seattle
,
the ten
t
h grade at Bellevue
,
I
daho and
t
he eleven
t
h and twelfth
grades we
r
e at Montrose
,
Colorado, where
she graduated f
r
om
h
igh school
i
n 1957
.
After high school graduation s
h
e moved to Bo
i
se
,
Idaho
,
attended Links
Business College and went to work for Boise-Payette (later Boise Cascade)
.
She was
enthusiastic about her job and did a lo
t
of work
. In
December 1973,
she got a Bachelo
r
degree in Bus
i
ness Adminis
t
ration at BSU
.
She wo
r
ked for Bo
i
se Cascade abou
t
17 years.
Norma had a good sense of humor
and
was gene
r
o
u
s and good
hearted. She would g
i
ve people money to help them o
u
t even when it
made he
r
short of money
.
She took her s
i
ster Mary in when
she cou
l
dn't live at home with her husband and
children
anymore.
Later she also took in an older woman
who couldn
'
t live by herself.
About 1975 she found out she had multiple sclerosis.
She was able
t
o drive and get arou
n
d for many
years, but when the disease finally took hold, she d
i
dn
'
t comp
l
a
i
n, she just
dealt w
i
th it the best she could and remained posi
t
i
ve
.
Augus
t
18
,
2011, she was told she had a 6 cm
glioma (tumo
r
)
i
n her brain
.
September 13th
the glioma was removed.
I
t was a grade 4 which is the worst
kind
.
Gliomas can be slowed, but not stopped
.
She was treated with radiation, and another
MRI showed that the tumor was coming back
.
Since the radiation had caused her
problems
.
there was no more that could be done
.
She remained
posit
i
ve to the end
.
Norma never married. She was preceded
i
n dea
t
h by
her parents
,
step-parents and one sister
,
Mary E
.
Featherston Masonholder
.
She is su
r
vived by three brothers
,
Larry E
.
Featherston of
Heyburn
,
Fred W. Featherston of Boise, and
George A
.
Vickers of Payette.
Special
appreciat
i
on
i
s expressed to Wenona Ellis for checking on Norma
,
taking ca
r
e of her mail
,
advising her
, and
encouraging her. Thanks also to Lorrie Parrish and the staff at Sunny Ridge
Rehabil
i
tation and Re
t
irement Center in Nampa, and to Harrison
'
s Hope Hospice of Meridian.
A funeral service wi
l
l be held at
2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 18, 2012, with viewing beginning at12 noon at
Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel
,
5400 Fairview
Avenue in Bo
i
se
.
Bur
i
al will follow at Dry Creek Cemetery, where Norma will be
buried nex
t t
o her s
i
ster
,
Mary
.
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