Norma Jean Conley Hackler

HACKLER NORMA JEAN CONLEY HACKLER Norma Jean Conley Hackler of Palm Desert died peacefully November 9, 2007 in Palm Springs of complications after surgery, according to family members. She was 79. Norma was born November 21, 1927 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Theodore R. and Alma Jane Quigley Conley of El Reno, Oklahoma. She married Loyd Hackler of Cloud Chief, Oklahoma on August 31, 1947. Her husband preceded her death in December, 1996. She was a homemaker and loving mother. Norma was an active garden club member and several times served as president. She lived In Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and, for over 20 years, in Washington, D.C. where Mr. Hackler served as a press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson and later as president of the National Retail Federation. Norma endowed a graduate level Ethics in Government chair at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin in her husband‘s name in 2000. She traveled extensively and divided her remaining years between a family ranch in southern New Mexico near Roswell and her home in Palm Desert. She was a generous supporter of many charities. Survivors include one daughter, Patricia Kim Hackler Brown of Austin, Texas; two sons; Warren Craig Hackler of Austin and George Conley Hackler of Corrales, New Mexico; and one granddaughter, Elizabeth Conley Hackler of Austin; two sisters-in- law, Lee Speary of The Woodlands, Texas, Edith Tulloss of Universal City, Texas and a brother-in-law, Arthur Hackler of Kingston, Oklahoma; two step granddaughters; Sharon Miner Setter of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Heather Christine Husom of Phoenix, Arizona; four step great-grandchildren; Nathan, Connor, and Fallon Miner Setter; and Ryan Husom; cousins Diane Amos, Sandi Mizirl and Sandi‘s daughter Nikki Morrell, cousins Jack Perry and Helen Grief, Alma Jean Bell, Elizabeth Anderson , James Harris, Betty Lou Engles, Billy Patterson, Charles Conley, Donna Smith, Denna Stewart, Rex Lynn and Jenny Taylor. The family wishes to express their appreciation for the many friends from the Washington area who called frequently to monitor Mom‘s efforts to overcome her illness. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for loving our mother as much as we do. She will be sorely missed by friends and relatives in California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington, D.C. Memorial services will be held under the auspices of the Community Church of Joy, Dr. Gene Ness, presiding, at the Armenian Church of the Desert, 38900 Vista Dunes, Rancho Mirage, California, Wednesday, November 14 at 11 a.m. Her ashes will be scattered at the family ranch in Hope, New Mexico on Saturday, December 1 at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family encourages those who wish to do so to make a memorial contribution to a local charity supporting the well being, health and development of children in Norma C. Hackler‘s name.