Vickie M. Calhoun

July 6, 1947 - October 19, 2018

Vickie was brought into this world on July 6th, 1947, and went home to be with her Lord and Savior on October 19th, 2018. Funeral Services will be at 3 PM, Wednesday, October 24th, 2018, at Athens CME Church, East Gadsden. The family will receive friends from 2 PM until the time of the service. Village Chapel Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of services. She graduated from Emma Sansom High School and eventually attained her Master’s in Physical Education from Jacksonville State University. While working on her Master’s, she taught school and also worked for the City of Gadsden at the East Gadsden Community Center and Walnut Park Rec Center. She taught for over 30 years, 29 of those years were at Striplin Elementary, and also taught classes for JSU at Gadsden State. She also ran the Summer Nutrition program for the City of Gadsden. Vickie was a very accomplished athlete in women’s fast pitch softball, and coached fast pitch at Gadsden State and helped start the fast pitch program at Gadsden City High School. She was the first girls basketball coach at Gadsden High School. She was the first woman inducted into the Etowah County Sports Hall of Fame (1997), and was also inducted into Alabama Softball’s Hall of Fame and Emma Sansom’s Wall of Fame. She was the best and most loving mother and grandmother to her family. Everyone she met was an automatic friend and she was loved by all. She will be truly missed by everyone who knew her. She was a Christian and had been attending Athens CME Church. She is now rejoined in heaven with her parents, Milton “Toby” and Silvia Moore; and brother, Terry Moore. Those she leaves behind to cherish her memory are her sons, Cameron Byars and Kris (Dianne) Calhoun; granddaughter, Kristin Calhoun; brothers, Dennis (Sheila) Moore and Steve (Donna) Moore; sister-in-law, Janice Moore; extended family, Meme, Black, and Tena and Reggie Carpenter; and special friends, Carol Hannah, Virginia, Michelle, R.T. Cox, Ronnie Handy, and Tom and Beth Bernard.