Edna Elizabeth Reed Vickers, 97, of Uvalde died on Nov. 20, 2016, at Amistad Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. A memorial service will be held on Dec. 10, 2016, at 2 p.m. at the Baptist Temple Church. She was born on Feb. 19, 1919, in Des Arc, Missouri to Mary Jane (Clifton) and Perry A. Reed. The family moved to Uvalde when Vickers was 2 years old, hoping that the dry climate would improve her ailing mother’s health. When she was 5 years old, her mother died after childbirth, as did her infant brother. Her father later remarried. Vickers married young and had four children. The family lived all over Texas and in Arkansas before she returned to Uvalde. She worked at the Williamson-Dickie Mfg. Co. for many years, and sat with people who were convalescing. The family says the daughter of one patient convinced her to obtain training to become a licensed vocational nurse. Though Vickers had never finished high school and was one of the oldest students in her class, she excelled in her studies. She worked at Uvalde Memorial Hospital and at Sid Peterson Regional Memorial Hospital in Kerrville, as well as working as a private nurse. Vickers loved nursing and encouraged many nursing students and certified nursing assistants at Amistad Nursing and Rehabilitation Center during the last years of her life. She loved to read books, and was especially interested in history, novels, biographies and genealogies, and had read the Bible through numerous times. The family says from childhood and onward she loved being outside and considered herself a tomboy; she inherited her family’s love of flower gardening and writing poetry; and had written several books of poems which she enjoyed gifting to people who had helped her. She was a member of Baptist Temple Church in Uvalde. Vickers was preceded in death by her parents; stepmother, Emma Reed; five siblings, Helen Effie Halsell, Royce Reed, Raymond Reed, Madge Cummins, and Charles Reed; two brothers-in-law, Charles Halsell and Taylor Cummins; two sisters-in-law, Vila Reed and Cecil Reed; one son-in-law, Felton Pierce; and several nieces and nephews. She is survived by three sons, William Vickers and wife, Barbara, of Escondido, California, Raymond Vickers of Uvalde, and Tommy Vickers of Georgia; one daughter, Hazel Pierce of Fort Smith, Arkansas; one sister-in-law, Isabell T. Reed of Uvalde; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews She donated her body to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the charity of one’s choice.