Vicki P. Carson

Vicki Carson, 78, of Windsor Heights, formerly of Diagonal, passed away Saturday morning, Oct. 21, 2023, at Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, surrounded by her loved ones. Celebration of Life Memorial Services will be 2 p.m. Sunday Oct. 29 at Powers Funeral Home in Creston. Pastor Jodi Rushing will officiate. Open memorial visitation, with family to receive friends will be from 1 p.m. until the time of service on Sunday.

Memorials are to St. Jude Children’s Hospital. She always felt very strongly about supporting children’s hospitals. Online condolences may be given at www.powersfh.com.

Victoria Page Carson was born Dec. 25, 1944, in San Diego, California, the daughter of Edward and Edna Bernice (Page) Reynolds. Vicki graduated from Diagonal Community High School May 24, 1962. On Oct. 7, 1962, Vicki was united in marriage to Arthur Garrett in Diagonal.

They made their home in Diagonal and Vicki worked for K-Mart in Creston and later in Des Moines for 25 years. Vicki loved her job at K-Mart, where she ran the electronics department and then moved on to the office manager position. Vicki made many friends at K-Mart, and to this day she still was in contact with many of them. Vicki and Art later divorced. Vicki transferred to K-Mart in Des Moines in 1983, where she held the position as office manager until the closing of the K-Marts stores.

On May 28, 1988, Vicki was united in marriage to Jerry Carson at the Little Brown Chapel in Arkansas. Vicki took a new job as office coordinator for Jacobson Transportation working in the position 20 plus years until the company was sold. As she put it, she didn’t ever retire the company did!

Following her time with Jacobson Transportation she volunteered at the Urbandale Library as she eased into retirement in 2014. Vicki and Jerry made their home in Windsor Heights until her passing.

Vicki is survived by her husband, Jerry Carson of Windsor Heights; two daughters, Julie Malcom (Bob) of Mount Ayr and Ronda Evans (Chris) of Diagonal; nine grandchildren: Neely Erickson (Sam) of Urbandale, Heath Evans (Laura Hibbs) of Diagonal, Colter Pickering of Cedar Rapids, Rob Evans (April) of Creston, Kerri Levi (Jeromy) of Norwalk, Scott Evans (Dustie) of New Virginia, Chayse Malcom of Clarinda, Kade Malcom (Amber) of Clarinda and Shaylen Linke of Clarinda; her sister-in-law, Jodi Fagen of Huxley; nephews: Jamie Jungst of Slater, Jason Jungst of Elkhart, Travis Jungst (Amber) of Slater and Garrett Fagen of Elkhart and many other family members who loved her dearly.

Preceding Vicki in death were her adoptive parents, Bob Baker and Alma Rodgers; father in-law, Dean Carson and mother-in-law, Mary Carson.