Vicki Lee Buchanan

Vicki Lee Buchanan was born December 5th, 1951 to Richard and Janet May Beer in Lincoln, Nebraska.  She was the last surviving and youngest of three children born to her parents.  Her older siblings were Ricky Ray Beer and Diane.  Her family moved to Glendale, California.  She attended high school there and loved to tell stories of going to pool parties at Vincent Price's house with her friends.  After graduating high school, she entered the college of Cosmetology.  She fondly remembered family trips to Knott's Berry Farm, Disneyland, and The Labrea Tar Pits.  She, here daughters, and her grandchildren took a trip last year to revisit these places and share in her joy.  Her first child, Satania Denice was born in 1970.  Vicki met the love of her life in David Wayne Buchanan and they were married 50 years.  They moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon in 1976.  In 1982, Vicki welcomed her twins, Rebecca Ann Lawson and Jennifer May Mills Buchanan into the world.

Vicki was well known, and loved, as a waitress in Klamath Falls, where she raised her family.  She started at Sambo's and served the community with kindness, compassion, and a willingness to always go above and beyond.  While she worked at the Grey Gull, she beat a young woman on her way to an interview.  The woman's glasses had broken and Vicki offered to take her own glasses apart to mend the strangers so she could go to her interview prepared and confident.  The woman got the job, and wrote an article that appeared in the Herald and News about the selfless waitress.

Vicki Lee Buchanan final resting place will be at Eagle Point National Cemetery.

While she extended her care to all, her greatest joy was her family.  She not only raised her children with her sense of community and love, she cared for her mother, Janet, after her father passed away.  Vicki expressed her own creativity and skill in making hand sewn and beaded Christmas stockings, embroidering family quilts, and inspiring her daughters to embrace their artistic abilities as well through sewing, painting, and music.

Vicki is survived by all three of her beloved daughters, and her cherished grandchildren, Jessica Strickler, Patrick Korpi, Vicki Lawson, Oscar Lawson, Baird Mills, and Aurora Mills.  Her legacy continues on, as her grandchildren include youth musicians, sewers, crafters, artists, and painters.  all her descendants share her love for community, and her commitment to leave the world a little better than you found it.  We love you, Mom.

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