Velda Jean Sackhoff Lomax
March 19, 1929 ~ December 17, 2008
Lomax, Velda Jean Sackhoff was born on March 19, 1929, to Viola Julia (Blunden) and August Frederick Sackhoff at home in Hunter, Kansas. She died in Houston, where she lived with her children on December 17, 2008. Jean moved from the small town of Hunter, Kansas to Topeka and went to secretarial school. There she met her love, Robert Sullivan Lomax, they married and they were blessed with 4 children. After loosing Bob, her husband, and Susan, her oldest daughter in 1965, Jean started working in the Legal profession as a legal secretary and found another love, the Law. Jean found great fulfillment in her family but also in the other things she loved to do. These things included singing in the choir at St. Johns Episcopal Church and serving in the organizations where she had so many friends, the Kansas Association of Legal Secretaries and the National Association of Legal Secretaries, the Kansas Association of Legal Assistants and the National Association of Legal Assistants, the Pachyderm Club, and the Normandy Republican Womans Club. She was her Precincts Republican Committee Women for many years. Jean was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers, Richard, Wilbur and Don and her sisters, Esther Rooker and Maureen Stertz, her husband, Bob and her daughter, Susan, as well as many nieces and nephews. She is survived by her children, Nancy J. Radecki and husband, Tony and their 4 boys, Robert, Brian, Peter and David, Julie I. Lomax and Alan O. Lomax and his daughter, Jazmine Rose Lomax Gilcrest. Her sister, Joan Derr and husband, Roy of Topeka, Kansas and Doris Hughes and her husband, Peter Jay of La Jolla, CA. In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to St. Johns Episcopal Church or the American Stroke Association. A visitation with the family will be held at Downing and Lahey on Friday, December 19, from 6 - 8 pm. Funeral Services will be held at St. Johns Episcopal Church on Saturday, December 20 at 1:00 pm.
A visitation with the family will be held at Downing and Lahey on Friday, December 19, from 6 - 8 pm.
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I only recently heard of Ms Lomax passing. I only knew her a short time , but she was very kind and compassionate to the needs of others. My sympathy to Alan, Julie , Nancy and their families.
I wanted to express my condolences to Jean’s Family. I was in Susan’s class at Cloud school many years ago. I was an honorary pall bearer at her funeral. Jean was our Brownie Scout leader. I have many remembrances and memories of the Lomax family. Jean was a very wonderful classy lady and we idolized her! Connie Jones-Matias Georgetown, TX
Julie, I am so sorry for your loss. Liz Webster
My condolences to the Lomax families. May you feel God’s comforting presence during this difficult time. In their high school days Nancy and Julie were my favorite ‘sitters’. I was glad when they were available to be with my children Kevin & Jana. May you girls find comfort in knowing that others, through you, benefited from your mothers caring and nurturing ways.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Radecki family, Julie and Alan at his time. It was a joy to see the great love of family that this strong, beautiful woman had. Her smile and the twinkle in those beautiful eyes will be missed.
Jean was always a mentor to others in the legal profession. She was an active member of the Wichita Legal Secretaries Association and shared her vision for us to grow. She will be missed but has definitely left her mark on our hearts.
I have many fond memories of time spent together. Aunt Jean was a wonderful woman and I will miss her dearly. We are comforted with the thought that she is once again with the love of her life, Uncle Bob and Susan. I can see her, Sis and Esther chatting away as Don just sits back and smiles. Much like the times spent around a family dinner table in Hunter. Thoughts and prayers are with Nancy, Julie and Alan.