Seed Legacy Vicki Chenier
Vicki Lynn Bolander-McCannon-Chenier was born in Raytown, Missouri on April 17th, 1956. Her father was Perry Bolander and her mother was Sybil Bowling-Bolander. Vicki's brother Ronald Bolander was born in 1956. Vicky's father Perry was the Station Master at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri and Sybil was a Certified Nurse. Vicki was born with three holes in her heart, leading to an open heart surgery operation when she was three years old, becoming the youngest person to have ever done the operation at the time. Vicki Lynn was a fighter and recovered from the operation - going on to collect Friends and Family for the rest of her life. Vicki Lynn Chenier (1957-2024)
Vicki has three children with her first husband Forrest McCannon; son Jeremy McCannon in 1975, daughter Jami McCannon-Langdon in 1978, and son Zachariah McCannon in 1981. Vicki has six grandchildren. Jami's children; Wyli and Ghavin. Jeremy's children; Max and Violet. And Zack's children; Winfield and Leo.
In 1993, Vicki married Michael Chenier and they packed up the three kids and a dog named Odie and moved out of the hustling-bustling life in North Kansas City to a 40 acre wooded plot of land in Ray County, Missouri along Firebranch Creek. In-and-around their five bedroom underground home tucked into a ridge line facing east; Vicki and Mike carved out a homestead with a large kitchen, indoor houseplants, outdoor vegetable gardens, chickens, wildlife food plots, rock and railroad tile walls, deer stands, and with Mike and Vicki being a social and lively couple, they hosted many-a-get-together in which the clinking of horseshoes, tea glasses, and an occasional beer bottle could be heard echoing down Firebranch Road.
They had a large metal "barn" erected in the early 2000's which served as the perfect gathering spot with large doors rolled up on each side. Also during the early 2000's, Vicki's mother, Sybil Milligan came to live in a small home between the house and shop. So too did Vicki's father Perry live the remaining years of his life in her care. Fiercely proud of her father's career as Kansas City's Union Station Master, Vicki worked meticulously to contribute his artifacts for loan and donation to the revitalization of the historic Kansas City station.
On an application for a waitress job in the 1980's, written in impeccable penmanship, Vicki lists Gardening and Carpentry as her Hobbies. She loved remodeling her homes and filling them up with house plants, extending to outdoor vegetable and flower gardens, small waterfall pond gardens, and her specialty, Secret Gardens.
Vicki was a "jack of all trades" and that spilled over into her professional career. Electronics assembling, Pharmacy Tech, Ammunition factory work, independent Avon and Perfume sales to list a few. Maybe the most telling of her personality was her Waitress career. Vicki loved people and making new friends. Her children are quoted as saying, "She would talk on the phone for hours and you would wonder if anyone was on the other end of the line." She loved teaching and explaining how things worked.