Vickie L. Anderson

The funeral service celebrating and honoring the life of Vickie Lou Abernethy (Anderson), 63, of Enid will be held 11:00 a.m. Wednesday May 27, 2020 in the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor David Jones officiating. Burial will follow in the Waukomis Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home. The service will be live streamed on the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Facebook page. Vickie was born to Jack G. and Nancy C. Hix Anderson in Enid on November 22, 1956 and passed from this life on May 22, 2020 at her home in Enid surrounded by her family and dogs. The family moved to Oklahoma City until Vickie’s freshman year of high school, when they returned to Waukomis. Vickie attended Waukomis High School, where she is remembered as the beautiful, vivacious, and incredibly nice new girl. She became a Chiefs cheerleader and met some of her lifelong friends during this time. She was very active in several different school organizations and also played basketball. After graduation, Vickie moved to Arlington, TX and attended Bauder Fashion College from 1976-1978 receiving her Associates of Arts degree in fashion merchandising. She then moved back to Enid and opened, along with her friend, Joyce Lunday, JV’s First Edition Clothing Store. She always loved to tell people that they were one of very few stores to sell the Faded Glory brand. Soon after, she met and married Richard Abernethy on April 28, 1979 in the Waukomis Christian Church and from this union came their two daughters, Jacquelyn and Jamie. During this time, she became a licensed medical transcriptionist for Dr. Dilling in Enid eventually doing it all from home so that she could care for her girls. Vickie devoted every minute of life to raising her girls. She got Jacquelyn involved in voice lessons at the age of 10 and traveled all over ensuring Jacquelyn lived out her dream. We still aren’t sure who enjoyed it more. She was always supportive of Jamie changing her mind every time she tried something new, whether it was dance, gymnastics, piano, track, or whatever venture she decided to embark on. She loved to lay in bed with her girls and watch Roseanne or play Mario Brothers on Nintendo. During both Jacquelyn and Jamie’s teenage years, her house became the hang out spot, mostly because all of the girl’s friends liked to hang out with Vickie more. She could genuinely relate to all ages of people from all walks of life. She became a fun “Glamma” and loved all 5 of her grandchildren with all of her heart. She would often times keep them after school and loved to walk her four dogs with the grandkids. Teaching the kids things that their moms didn’t necessarily approve of became the norm. She wasn’t like most grandmas and her grandbabies loved every bit of that. Vickie always had a larger than life personality. She could make a new friend out of anyone and they would instantly fall in love with her. She was all about fun. She loved to sing karaoke and talk to everyone about numerology and astrology. She always had music blaring whether she was outside by the pool, doing her yardwork, or getting ready in her bathroom, which took no less than two hours. Any spare time she had went to her doggies. She was notorious for picking up strays and bringing them home. She could keep plants and animals alive long passed their life expectancy. She spent a lot of time during her battle watching Thunder Basketball, Ozark, and Dr. Phil. She listened to Queen and loved Freddy Mercury and Adam Lambert. We know everyone will miss her funny outlandish posts on Facebook. Vickie is survived by her mother, Nancy Anderson, of Waukomis, OK; her daughters, Jacquelyn Underwood and boyfriend Jaydee Higgins, of Enid; Jamie Sunderland and husband Erik Sunderland, of Enid; former husband, Richard Abernethy, of Enid; 5 grandchildren, Eli and Madison Underwood, and their father Bryce Underwood of Enid; Khloe Krejci, and her grandmother Carole, of Enid; and Paityn and Paxton Sunderland, of Enid; her brother, Ron Anderson, of Waukomis; nephew Jeremy Anderson, of Tuskahoma; cousins, Julie and Kay Liebhart; and several lifelong friends. She is preceded in death by her father, Jack Anderson; brother, Jimmy Houser; nephew Jonathan Anderson; maternal grandparents, Leonard and Lucille Hix; paternal grandparents, Gilbert and Helen Anderson; and cousin, John Liebhart.

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