Vicki Ann Hart

1948 - 2025

Vicki Hart loved in all directions. She loved our world, she loved our community, and she loved her family and her many, many friends. Vicki founded and directed the Hunger 100 Bicycle Race and raised over $250,000 for the Community Food Bank, where she was an active volunteer and recipient of the Punch Woods Award. She moved with great courage and intention to alleviate the suffering of others, including many years working with Homicide Survivors, Parents of Murdered Children and Pima County Victim Witness. Vicki founded the Samos Neighborhood Association, and she was also the recipient of the American Institute of Public Service Jefferson Award. Vicki served for several years as the Chairwoman of the Citizen's Police Review Board, and she also worked as a Drug and Rehabilitation Counselor for Jewish Family Services. She was, additionally, an investigative reporter for the Tucson Weekly where her reporting relentlessly exposed hard truths, in particular with cases involving child molestation. She was the President of every PTA of every school attended by her sons A.J. Hart and Nathaniel Hart, and she gave each of her sons freely and joyfully all she had to give. Vicki's actions, love and determination will continue to resonate through many future generations. She lived her last years with the same grace, dignity, determination, good humor and goodwill that characterized her entire life.

She was a great light. Her bright and beloved memory lives on in the heart of her husband of 53 years Greg Hart, in the hearts of her son A.J., his wife Alexa Jeffress, and her granddaughter Tallulah Jo, in the hearts of her son Nathaniel and his partner Megan Dumas, in the heart of her mother Jo Margaret Morrison (nee Wilson,) and in the hearts of her brother Craig Morrison and wife Marilyn and their children Melissa and Randy, and in the hearts of hundreds of others whom she touched over the years. Vicki was predeceased by her father John Morrison.

A memorial celebration for Vicki will be held this coming Spring. Donations to the Community Food Bank and/or Doctors Without Borders in Vicki's memory would be appropriate and appreciated.