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Victoria Marie (Babish) Sires

Posted 2020-03-31 by mhenderson
Published in Mohave Daily News Online from Mar. 29 to Apr. 5, 2020 -
Lake Havasu City, Arizona -

Vicky Babish Sires, age 66, passed away on Thursday, February 27, 2020
in Longview, Washington. Victoria Marie, born to Frank Babish and Jean
Babish Smith in 1953, was a teen when her parents moved her and her
five siblings to River Bend (Riviera), Arizona from Michigan.

Vicky and her brother Dan were one of the first graduating classes of
Mohave High School. Vicky loved the desert. She was baptized in the
Colorado River. When she met her Navy husband Calvin, they held a huge
old fashioned reception in Oatman. She and Calvin had two children,
Ken and Kim. Vicky loved to bake, camp, fish, and play cards. She was
a giver. She helped at her mothers Sears catalogue store, and took
care of her baby sister Billie Jo most days. Her passion was sewing
and later became quilting. Through her life she had sewn beautiful
gifts, costumes, clothing, all her sisters brides maids dresses, and
an enormous amount of donation quilts.

At 42, Vicky moved to Washington with her husband Joe and daughters
Rachel and Kim. She enjoyed gardening, collecting tea cups and
saucers, time on her beautiful deck, having daily chats with her
sister Janice, jig saw puzzles and quilting. Vicky joined a quilting
club and was quickly recognized as a talented quilter in her area
winning a multitude of ribbons for her quilts. The group donated many
of their quilts to cancer patients and sick babies.

Vicky adored her relationships with her family, her grand-children
Kasey and Jewel, her nephews and nieces Dan, Frank, Natasha, Kelsea,
McKenna and Sheaden. Her most favorite activity toward the end of her
life were play dates with her grandson Oakley. She always called the
desert her home.




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