Victoria “Vicki Lou” Stuard

by Lynn McMillen
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Victoria “Vicki Lou” StuardVictoria “Vicki Lou” Stuard, 66, of Hamilton, Alabama, passed away on May 13th, 2021 in Birmingham, Alabama.

A visitation will be held on Saturday, May 22nd from 12-2 p.m. at Marion County Funeral Home and funeral services will follow at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel. Burial will be at Bexar Cemetery.

Victoria was born in Waukegan, Illinois to Cole Skaggs and Lula Fawcett on Monday, August 9th, 1954. She studied music at a college now known as Liberty University in Virginia. She earned her BS in Applied Management in 1996 and MA in Organizational Management in 1998. She was a graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, where she earned an Ed.D in Educational Leadership in 2008, the first in her family to achieve the highest academic distinction.

Victoria had a passion for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community through teaching ASL and interpreting. She also worked with students with disabilities in various positions and venues to ensure that their accommodations were in place. She worked as an Associate Director/Assistant Professor for Azusa Pacific University for thirteen years until retiring in 2016. She returned to Hamilton to be with her parents in their final years.

From a young age, she was an avid and committed reader who spent countless hours in the library, indulging her imagination in the literary world. She was an artist at heart taking on various crafts, and some of her interests included jewelry-making, photography, writing poetry, and aromatherapy.

At her very core, and what inspired, permeated, and empowered her life, was her deep commitment to her Christian faith. Throughout the years, she demonstrated that faith through kindness, gentleness, hospitality, and as a gracious source of comfort, support and counsel to her friends, family, and those she encountered in both her professional and daily lives.

She served in churches and conferences as a volunteer ASL interpreter. She was recognized as a woman of prayer. In recent years, she was asked by a number of church and par church organizations to provide devotional materials and head up prayer support teams for their associated conferences.

She was always active in various churches where she lived, attending regularly. She had a beautiful singing voice, and served in the choir, on worship teams, and as a gifted soloist. For a number of years, she was part of a volunteer worship team, regularly ministering along with chaplain services, in the California State Prison system, notably at the Chino correctional facility.

Victoria is preceded in death by her grandparents, her parents Cole Skaggs, Lula Fawcett, and James Fawcett, and her brother Corbin Fawcett.

Victoria is survived by her children Luke Stuard of Los Angeles, California and Elizabeth Mahler (husband Ryan) of Claremont, California, her siblings Annie Tudor (husband Adrian) of Dublin, Ireland, Michael Skaggs (wife Priscilla) of Clarksville, Arkansas, and Carol F. Dennis of Memphis, Tennessee, nieces and nephews Abigail, Jesse, Rick, Kara, Kimberly, Tiffany, Lacy, Jasmine, Preston, Brianna, Dalton, Cara, Robert, and a host of beloved aunts, cousins, and friends.

Pallbearers will be Alan Green, David Shotts, Sean Jeffries, Jason McRae, Lennox Lugo, Will Crigger and John Paul Newnoen.

The family of Victoria wishes to extend their sincere thanks to Dr. Barnes, Dr. Adams, the nursing staff at both Princeton Baptist Hospital and Brookwood Baptist Medical Center, as well as the Princeton and Brookwood chaplains who provided her exemplary spiritual support while in Birmingham, Alabama.

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