Cleora Mina Amick was born Feb. 4, 1913, in Lockney, Texas, the daughter of Jonathan Ross and Mina Holt Agee. She was the second child among five bothers and sisters. Cleora's early childhood was spent in Paducah, Texas, near her beloved grandmother, Satsie Ann Agee. Due to illness as a small child, her family was advised to relocate to a dryer climate. Reading of homesteading opportunities in the newspaper, the family journeyed to Meeker in May of 1918 in a Maxwell car. Cleora remembered fondly the family homestead near Hole in the Wall Canyon with their first home a boarded tent with dirt floors. Her parents raised grain and vegetables for sale to the miners; likely instilling her well-known and admired gardening ability. Cleora loved learning. Her early education was at the homestead, with her mother purchasing schoolbooks at the Axial store. When the family leased the Sanderson farm outside Meeker in 1924, Cleora attended school in Meeker and was graduated as valedictorian in 1930. She attended Western where she received her teaching certificate and later her bachelor's degree. Cleora taught in several of the one-room schools around Meeker, including White River City, Strawberry Creek, Coal Creek and Morapos Creek. She also taught in Dinosaur, Hayden and Parachute schools. On July 23, 1935, she was united in marriage to James A. Amick in Glenwood Springs, Colo. In the early years of marriage, they traveled and worked in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. During this time, DeeAnn, their oldest daughter, was born. Upon the family's return to Meeker, Jim and Richard were born. After her husband's death in 1961, her mother's heart added two more children to the family in 1967, Sandra and Leticia. Her love of gardening was overshadowed only by her love of God. She spent many years serving as a Sunday school teacher and playing the piano in a number of churches. Cleora is survived by her five children: DeeAnn Dondit and husband Bill of Wheeling, Ill., Jim D. Amick and wife Nancy of Meeker, Colo.; Richard Amick and wife Debbie of Warren, Mich.; Sandra Holloway of Littleton, Colo.; and Leticia Lofton and husband John of Phoenix, Ariz.; fourteen grandchildren; twenty great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; brother Carol Agee of Fort Collins, Colo.; brother Walter Agee of Cedar Hill, Texas, and five nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents; one brother, Julian Agee; and one sister, Naomi White.