Vicki was born in Logan, Utah on May 26, 1942 to Shirley Mae Phippen and Leon Milton Sealy. She grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and graduated from Olympus High School in 1960. She attended Brigham Young University and later the New York School of interior Design. Vicki loved to spend summers at Bear Lake and will be buried on the hill overlooking the lake she loves.
Vicki met Richard Clayton in junior high school. They grew up in the same area and were good friends long before they dated. After Richard returned from his Church mission service to Sweden, they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on February 6, 1964.
Vicki and Richard have navigated through the joys and sorrows of love and loss through 54 years of marriage. They started out in humble beginnings in Pleasant Grove and Salt Lake, Utah, while Richard was finishing school, moving to Ogden and then Wyoming, before building two homes in Highland, Utah, and then two in St. George, Utah, taking Vicki's parents along for the ride with a retirement home of their own.
Vicki was blessed with many talents that she nurtured over a lifetime. Among them were decorating, which seemed to be a natural gift, and Feng Shui. She was especially passionate about music and art. She had a beautiful singing voice. She enjoyed teaching piano lessons in her home and taught over 300 students. She painted throughout her life and took lessons from the eminent Roland Lee in St. George, Utah. In the last decade and a half of her life she painted numerous oil paintings, capturing her children and grandchildren on canvas. One of her crowning achievements was a nativity piece she painted in 2012 that became her Christmas card that year. For those who received one of her cards or paintings it was a treasured gift.
Vicki is survived by her two sisters, Linda Rae Sealy Ottley and Loni Mae Sealy Hatch, her husband, Richard Clayton, their five children: Monette (Don), Richard (Carol), Kent (Diane), Jennifer (Todd), and Ann Alise. Also 16 grandchildren-8 boys and 8 girls, and 3 great granddaughters.
Vicki was dedicated and devoted to the nourishing and upbringing of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She taught them true principles and life values. Her love for her family was the hallmark of her life as the matriarch of her generation. Her faith ruled her life. She was committed to her covenants and convictions throughout her life. She is and always will be an example for all of us to emulate.
Funeral services will be held at the Winchester Hills 2nd Ward, 5338 North Winchester Drive, St. George, Utah at 11am, viewing will be held 9:30-10:30 am prior to service on Wednesday Oct 31.
Interment will take place at 2 pm on Nov 1 at the Cemetery overlooking Bear Lake in Laketown, Utah
Published in Salt Lake Tribune on Oct. 30, 2018
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