The Starpress 4/26/04 MUNCIE - Geneva Mildred Vickery, 79, went home to be with her lord, and to be reunited with her husband Saturday afternoon at Ball Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. She was born in Monticello, Kentucky in 1924 to Barton and Flonnie Hughes. She graduated from Monticello High School in 1942 and moved to Richmond. In Richmond she started her family along with her loving husband, Harold. She then moved to Elwood to raise her family and then to Muncie in 1968. She was a District Manager of Beauty Counselor-Vanda Cosmetics for 30 years. Mildred had also attended the Tennessee School of Music and enjoyed playing piano, guitar, and singing. She was an active, longtime member of First Baptist Church, and her life revolved around her church friends. She was an inspiration and touched all who knew her, she will be greatly missed. Mrs. Vickery was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 53 years, Harold, who passed in 1998; and a half-brother, Doug Burchett. Mildred leaves to cherish her memory, a son, Jerry Vickery (wife: Rosie), Marshall, Illinois; two daughters, Linda Semler (husband: Jeff), Richmond, and Becky Keller (husband: Dave), Anderson; six grandchildren, Heather Pruden (husband: Todd), Chicago, Amanda Vickery, Marshall, Illinois, Ike Vickery, Marshall, Illinois, Clint Semler (wife: Marcy), Richmond, Nikki Winkle (husband: Jay), Muncie, and Scott Condon, Bloomington; two great-grandchildren, Helena Condon, Yorktown, and Jack Thomas Winkle, Muncie; one up-coming great-grandchild to be born to Heather; an aunt, Mrs. Eva Cross, Hamilton, Michigan; three cousins, Annetta Cross, Hamilton, Joe-Ed Cross, Hamilton, and Janet Clements, North Carolina; two sisters-in-law, Vivian Todd, and Imogene Vickery, both of Lexington, Kentucky; a brother-in-law, Bob Vickery (wife: Gladys), Monticello, Kentucky; and a second cousin, Bill Young, Muncie. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday at Garden View Funeral Home. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Burial will be conducted at Gardens of Memory Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be directed to the American Cancer Society through the funeral home.