Aloha M. Wyckoff

Aloha died on January 9, 2008. She was born in Wilder, Idaho on January 22, 1926. Her parents were Harian and Marie Maw. She is survived by her husband, Burl, two daughters, Chistine Cordes (John Adams) and Cynthia J. Wyckoff (Paul Meisenheimer), a grandson, Wyle Cordes, a step- grandson, Gregory Adams, two sisters, Idalee and Judith and three brothers, Vernon, Lester and Carl. Her elder sister Madeline had passed away on February 29, 2004. She graduated form high school in Nyssa, Oregon. She was Baptized in the Nyssa Methodist Church in 1942. She attended college for a wime at Williamette, University in Salem, Oregon. On April 16, 1945, she married Burl B. Wyckoff ant the Methodist Chruch in Nyssa, Oregon. They celebrated their sixty-second anniversary last year. Throughout her life, Aloha was an excellent homemaker and hard worker. She liked having a large fruit and vegtable garden and grew beautifull flowers. She enjoed singing at church and with her husband and children. She would not sing in the choir as she considered that she did not have a singing voice. Aloha was a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church and wa active in the church all her life. For abouth thirty years she volunteered in the UMC's Pacific Northwest Conference, eventually holding offices at the conference and national levels; twelve years as vice-chairperson of the Conference Council, eight years as Conference President of the United Methodist Women, and four years as Conference Lay Leader. She was a member of the church's National Board of Higher Education and held many other offices during her lifetime. Aloha was always active in Prescott Valley United Methodist Church. She held offices in United Methodist Women, serving wherever needed. She was active in the Walk to Emmaus. After she har her walk, she sponsored several people from our church and served on several of the leadership teams for the walks. In 1981 she and Burl went to Zambia, Africa, as missonaries for the United Church of Christ. At the Kafue Secondary School ( a boys high school, a part of the United Church of Zambia), they spent four years as the school's farm manager, clearing land, putting in an irrigation system, and starting the first crops. While there, Aloha taught sewing, reading and writing to women in local villages. For some of the older women this meant they learned to write their names, so they no longer had to use a thumb print for signing. Upon returning in the spring of 1985, Aloha and Burl moved to Arizona, building a home together in the Prescott Country Club at Dewey, Arizona. They have resided in the Country Clud since that time, moving to a second home there in 1996. Both Aloha and Burl loved to travel; they have been to all the continents except Antarctica. In Mexico and Chile they took park in building projects for local churches. Aloha was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease when in her late 70's and by the summer of 2007, had almost totally lost the use of her legs. Despite this, she retained the ability to read and converse, and continued to startle and amuse her family with pungent comments on daily occurrences. Her family and friends remember her for her wonderful smile, her courage, her active sense of humor and her willingness to tackle any work that needed to be done for her family or Church.