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died Tuesday morning July 7, 2015, at the Gold Canyon Hacienda Assisted Living. She was the beloved wife of 65 years of Merle Lawson (deceased in 2012) of the Lawson family in Dillon Beach, CA; mother to Gloria Duby (husband Albert W. Duby) of Putney, Vermont, and Nancy Vogler (husband Carl W. Vogler, Sr.) of Superior, Arizona; grandmother of five and great-grandmother to seven.
Icymae was born in 1925 to Charles and L. Gertude Stearns in Wirt, Oklahoma. Her dad was an oil field worker and she grew up in the oil fields of Oklahoma and Illinois. In 1940, her family moved to Pomona, California. After the war she attended the University of California in Davis in the fall of 1945 and came to Dillon Beach where she met Merle who had recently been discharged from the US Navy. They were married in 1946, working the Lawson Ranch at Dillon Beach and then starting Lawson’s Landing in1956. They retired to Arizona in 1988 making their home first in Florence and then in Casa Grande where they golfed and traveled. But they always came back to the Landing for their summers of fishing and clamming and fish stories.
Icymae loved to read and travel and spent many vacations fishing and camping in Mexico as well as several world cruises with her husband. She was a wonderful homemaker and great cook as well as a woman of high integrity and honesty. Even throughout her last 10 years fighting Alzheimer’s, she always maintained her ready smile and pleasant ways.
At her request, no services will be held but her ashes will be spread at the mouth of Tomales Bay where she caught many salmon with Merle.
Donations in her memory may be made to the LOST Trail, P. O. Box 284, Superior, AZ 85173.
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