Victoria Louise Speigner

In the afternoon of Monday, November 20th, 2023, Victoria Louise Speigner went to be with her Savior Jesus Christ. She passed away peacefully at her home in Issaquah, Washington with family members at her side.

Victoria was born on November 24, 1943 in Goshen, Indiana to Willie Louise and Victor Dale Brady. She was the eldest of five children.

She is survived by her husband Jack, their three children; Jack, III of Corpus Christi, TX, Antoinette Santos of Rolling Meadows, IL, and Sean Speigner of Albuquerque, NM; six grandchildren and six great grandchildren, and her three brothers: Dennis Brady of Aloha, OR., Bruce Brady of Tampa, FL. and Richard Brady of Tucson, AZ;

She spent her childhood years in New Paris, Indiana, moving to Tucson, Arizona with her family when she was in the fifth grade. She was an active member of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana, but changed to the Baptist Church in Tucson. She graduated from Pueblo High School in 1961, and enjoyed her high school years participating in student body government, National Honor Society and as a majorette with the band. She was a member of Distributive Education Clubs of America where she was the DECA State winner for Extemporaneous Speaking.

She was awarded a scholarship to the University of Arizona to study accounting but had to give it up to help her parents. She worked as a long-distance telephone operator for Mountain States Bell.

Vikki was a devoted wife and mother to her three children. She worked part time, but made sure she was always home when her children came home from school. She was often the neighborhood after school mother, and enjoyed supporting her children in all of their undertakings, especially sports. She was often running back and forth between soccer and baseball games.

Her real hobby was doing counted cross stitch, designing many of her own patterns. She had seventeen of her designs published. She also enjoyed doing genealogy research. She began researching her family genealogy in 1978 before computers and the internet were available. She would go to the National Archives files at Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle to do research, spending hours using microfilm files.

Vikki also enjoyed traveling. Opportunities arose for her to visit numerous locations in the US, Asia and in Europe. Singapore and Slovenia were two of her favorites abroad, but none were better than home.

Even though she never returned to college to pursue a degree in accounting, Vikki worked in accounting most of her working career. She worked for a while for the CPA who had been the CPA for the Seattle World's Fair, and for a number of years was in charge of keeping the books for Sears stores in Alaska. After Sears closed their accounting center in Redmond, Washington, she worked in medical billing for a group of doctors. She finished her working career at Space Labs Medical and retired in June of 2001.

She worried about not only her children, but all children. Shortly before she passed away, she asked if the children had been fed.