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Melanie
May 11, 2024
Your presence in my memory make my life so much better and richer. Thank you for passing this way.
Melanie Hickerson
May 12, 2023
I painted your portrait this year. It hangs in my bedroom and is a great comfort to me. I miss you so much.
Helen Nelson
May 11, 2023
I think of you every day. You will always be my dear sister.
Love you, Helen
Helen
May 11, 2022
I still miss her and always will. I wish so much that she was still here with us.
Melanie Hickerson
May 31, 2021
I still miss her, with a sharp pain in my heart. Then My heart leaps up with joy that I knew her, that she was in my life and cared about me. I am so very lucky to have known her and shared some bits of this life with her.
Helen Nelson
May 12, 2021
Cynthia, I can't believe it has been 12 years since we lost you. I think of you every day. I wish you were here so we could have some laughs together and reminisce about the crazy, fun times we had growing up in our nutty family. I wish I could have shown you Rome, Trieste, and Venice. You would have loved it. I wish you could have spent more time with us and us with you. I have so many regrets. Life is so short, but it seems that you never understand that until it is too late. I will continue to think of you every day and send you love, wherever you may be. Thanks for being my sister.
Helen Nelson
June 15, 2010
Cynthia,
I have had you always in my heart.
And since you have gone, forever,
I wish I could go back to give you words of comfort,
To take your soft hands between mine,
Or put my arm across your shoulder,
And ask, “How’s it going?”
I look at the shimmering of the sun on the river
And imagine you there with me.
I hear the birds and I wish you could hear them too.
I wish that we had spent time just lingering,
Aimlessly and wordlessly together,
Without the fears and pressures of our lives.
All those things that had led us miles apart,
But I was certain there would
Always be time for us, again.
I wish more than anything
There was time to tell you so many things.
Show you so much.
But mostly, I wish I could just linger with you,
Just be together, again.
With all my love, Helen
Lucretia Hickerson
June 13, 2010
June 13,2010
ReReading all the comments..at least I can be sure the farm was good idea.. I am sorry it wasn't perfect..but I was right , you were happy.!Now I am going to go read all your e mails!
and the DOGS Loved it!
Kiddo, I will always, always miss you.. and I do pray yo are blessed with good health and playful companions..in the forever after.
YOu loving big sister..
Lucretia
Seychelles
Lu Love
November 20, 2009
Anniversaries come and go...nexxt month will really be a hard one, Kiddo!
thinking about you a lot.. and I know you are happier now..
Love and Miss you.
Lu
Melanie Hickerson
October 4, 2009
Cynthia, You are growing as my mind reaches back and back. Memories are becoming richer as the initial pain of losing you recedes. Thank you, thank you for being my sister.
Melanie
Lucretia Luck
August 23, 2009
Visiting you
..as near as I can get...
We do NOT understand...
but we love and MISS you everyday...
I do believe in ANGELS
So it is easy to believe you are one..but then you always were..but you were the only one that didn't know it..
..Never gonna say good bye , girl..
just waiting to see you again..
Love LU
Daniela & Idefix Liljequist
June 21, 2009
Please accept our deepest sympathies.
Susan (Rayburn) Willrodt
June 15, 2009
Kim,
I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. I have such fond memories of her. She was the "cool" mom, the one who took us driving around with the t-tops off, the one who took us skiing back in middle school and the one who took us to our 1st concert (or at least it was my 1st concert),Styx. My thoughts are with you during this difficult and sorrowful time.
Mike & Cathy Woolwine
June 13, 2009
It is impossible to express our sorrow and grief for Cynthia's passing. I have known her for most of my life. For goodness sake, we go all the way back to junior high school. Life has a way of putting people back together again. After school days and marriages with kids and the whole bit, Cynthia ends up working with Cathy and me in my dental practice. She worked with us for longer than either of us would want to admit. She was a kind and caring lady and the singularly most generous person I have ever known. The world has lost one of it's best. We love you and will miss you.
Dede Bright
June 13, 2009
I met Cynthia through Charlotte (Minor) von Rosenberg when we were in junior high and went to the Hickerson's house where I discovered a truly free spirit family, individuals, every one of them.
I still have the peacock feathers that Cynthia brought to my home after our 20 year high school reunion. I always think of her when I see them every day.
Over the years I kept up with her by going to see Mike Woolwine for dental work twice a year. First time in my life I ever looked forward to getting my teeth worked on! Once while I was having a crown put on I suddenly looked at both of these people I had known since childhood peering into my mouth and discussing things and it just hit my as being funny. I said "I feel like we're having a menage a trois in my mouth!" Cynthia, with her great humor, started laughing. Mike, presuming it was the nitrous oxide, ignored me. I could always count on Cynthia "getting it".
I'll miss her gentle strength and her beauty.
Charlotte von Rosenberg
June 12, 2009
Cynthia and I grew up in the same neighborhood. She wore a fragrance called Straw Hat back in Barton Springs days. That stuck with me because I saw her as a summer ideal,of suntans and bikinis and real beauty. Over the years Cynthia and I shared lots of good times. She grew up into an independent, reliable and hard-working person. I am glad I got to see her in her element on her farm where she was so happy. I do recall the little pink cowboy boots Cynthia wore as work boots on her farm. I'm sorry she couldn't stay longer. I will always love and respect her.
Helen Deborah
June 10, 2009
Cynthia’s Poem
Have you seen a place where children’s
Wet footprints linger
On a porch in the sun for a moment,
Reflecting the precious beings who
Have put them there?
Then, in their perfect shapes
Decide to fade and disappear.
I see those footprints now.
As delicate as a flower’s color,
And as indescribable as the warm, lovely scent
That floats to me in the evening air.
But it only seemed that the footprints were on the porch.
They were really on my heart.
They were there, indelible.
We had trod tiny bare feet together in sand dunes, in muddy back yards,
In stickers and in clover.
We have left our prints side by side.
To disappear in a midday sun.
Where things are left undone and unsaid.
Did you see the little flute in the dusty case?
Or the ukulele she once played and kept
As a memory of music practiced note by note
And the laughter that it made?
You marched in a band
And later sang with Kim and I was proud
And you were happy.
Did you find the crocheted hat I made for her
That she hung upon the wall
As a special decoration?
Did you see the small boots she wore?
To feed her friends, her animals,
To build a walk, to grow some food, to labor on the land she loved?
Did you see the pictures she placed round about?
To say good-bye - to say, “I love you?”
But not just small and incidental things are left here with us,
Monumental things are left behind -
The crushing feeling, the remembering a person who was
Too sensitive for this world.
The yearning to go back,
And of course,
The love we have for Cynthia.
I love you, Cynthia.
Perry Flowers III
June 6, 2009
I remember Cynthia being as kind & beautiful of a person as it gets. I'm privileged to have made her acquaintance. My thoughts & prayers go out to her family. She will be missed.
James Scherer
June 4, 2009
I met Cynthia through Melanie via Lucretia. She seem be a very gentle and caring soul. My thoughts and prayers are with you all in this time of need.
Quembe Walkingstick
June 1, 2009
It is just too sad.
Charlotte Ferris
May 31, 2009
I met Cynthia through Carl in 1991, at Geraldine's house. Cynthia welcomed me instantly into the pack; soon after, Carl took me out to her home outside Paige. Every hour I spent out there with Cynthia and her family was a happy one. I have many loving memories of her, but the tenderest memory, the one I hold most dear, is how we "clicked" about animals. She cared deeply for them, and she understood that I loved them, too. We understood each other this way. Whenever I came out to the farm, she would make sure that I could pet her dogs, that I could caress the soft ears of the young bull with one hand while I fed him hay with the other, that I could throw feed to the chickens and see the beautiful peacocks. Cynthia made these wonderful experiences possible for me, and that is a loving memory of her for me.
Lady Carla (Cassata) Davis
May 31, 2009
31 May 09
My deepest sympathy to Kim, Melanie, Lucretia, Geraldine and the rest of the Hickerson family. The many years gone by and the distance between us will never erase all the cherished memories of the times we shared together, when you took me in as one of your own. I have such fond memories of of sweet, lovely Cynthia and share your loss and sorrow during this difficult time.
I Love you all dearly and always will!
May 31, 2009
When I was in college, a trip to the Hickersons was the most fun ever. Cynthia was one of the kids, those noisy, rambunctious, artistic, hugely affectionate kids, and I envied them all. I know how much the holes in the family must hurt, and I am so sorry.
Sandra (Hupp) Scofield
Antony Barnes
May 30, 2009
I first saw Cynthia at Barton Springs in 1962 or 63. She was cute in a bikini, all of 13 years old.
Later when I was stationed at Webb AFB, my car broke down in Austin. I made a few calls, here was Cynthia to give me a ride to the bus station. She was always helpful.
Then, when I was visting her in Bastrop, she delightfully showed my son, Robert, how to feed the calf with the oversized feeding bottle.
I always have a good memory of Cynthia.
Respectfully and with sorrow, yours,
Antony Anson Texas
Lucretia Hickerson
May 30, 2009
We can share this memories on the statesman obituaries...the are only temporary...but we can share for a while.
love,
brooks
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Lucy Lucretia Luc wrote:
OK..looking at old pictures just seemed to make me feel worse and worse..I was nearly incapacitated..the Football in VBarcelona..made me suddenly crash into the WALL of when she came with me to Spain.. I couldn't quit crying..
so because I have a mask, that I always called Cynthia.. even though it wasn't perfect..
I said to my self
Bite the Bullet... maKe some faces of her... and yu knOw what..as I got my materials out and put her pictures up in a good light..I enjoy looking at them and smiling back at her.. and the pain has gone somewhere else. NOW i AM PUTTING FLOWERS IN HER HAIR AND MAKING HER SMILE...IF THEY ARE ANY GOOD i WILL SEND THEM TO YOUALL
..it may just be temPorary...but, those of you two that paint...TRY IT..and Riley.. sing her a song or an hour of songs reallly singing to her... all by yurself.. pretty soon you might even find a laugh..Sweet Betsy From Pike, her favorite!
and Carl..yu have so many memories, how can I possibly help you, but yo could put her picture on the sidewalk and dedicate a performance to her. somehow it changes the ..
bottomless wound into a road that will go on..
I hope you understand that I am tryign to help
all my love
LU
Melanie Hickerson
May 29, 2009
Cynthia was generous and kind. She had my back when I needed it. She was my teacher in so many things. I was fortunate, fortunate to have had her as sister and friend. I talk to you and know you hear. Thank You!!
Helen Nelson
May 25, 2009
Cynthia was a dear sister and I will miss her. She was a person who always tried to please everyone around her and give with all of her heart. She opened her home and beautiful property for weddings, Christmas, family gatherings, and any time anyone asked.
She left everything she touched better than it was before. She loved the simple and wonderful things in the world - the beauty of nature, the simplicity of an animal’s affection, the sound of a friend’s voice. She tried her best at everything she did and always tried to help others, including everything from trying to teach me to floss my teeth every day and take a lunch-time jog around Lake Austin – for which, unfortunately for me, I was not the best student. But she never stopped trying to make life better for others. The world has lost a sweet, caring, joyful person, and I have lost a precious sister. I will always miss her and always love her.
Helen
jules and Sue Neighbors
May 19, 2009
We sure will miss our delightful neighbor Cynthia! When we met her, we thought she was a fine person; when we first went to her home, we knew we'd made the right choice. One wonderful memory was when she came to our home-warming party and introduced us to our pond~ "What?!? You haven't been swimming in it?!?" Another was watching the Jon Stewart show with her late at night (before we starting farming).
We miss her and send our heartfelt condolences to her family.
Lynn Pugh Remadna
May 19, 2009
My thoughts and prayers are with you and the entire Hickerson family at this time of sadness. I enjoyed Cynthia's friendship at O.Henry Jr. High and Austin High School, and was glad to see her again at several reunions. Again, my condolences to the whole family, especially Kimberly, Mrs. Hickerson, and Carl
May 17, 2009
To the Hickerson family, Your whole family is well thought of. Icons, a benchmark family and you are all in my prayers. Always remember the good times!
Kit Pearsall
Ed & De Robinson
May 17, 2009
We would like give our deepest thoughts and prayers for the complete Hickerson Family. We know your losses are great. Words can't express our thought for you all. Our prayers are with you at this time.
Love you all Edward & Delores Robinson & family
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