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18-Jan-2013
by Accordion Rose, Rosie Oliver
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| Accordion Rose, Rose Oliver writes: It is with great sadness that I have to let you know that Susan and I lost our sweet mother Vera Trick on Sunday January 6th. She had a full 91 years of life and would have been 92 this April. Picture above at her 90th birthday. Growing up on a farm in Ohio, she won her first accordion contest in Findlay, Ohio at the age of 15. She entertained throughout high school and then moved to NYC after graduation. She went to work at Eastman Kodak and studied the accordion with Paul Billotti at Carnegie Hall. Vera later moved to Toledo, Ohio and took the Teachers Course with Sydney B Dawson at Trick Brothers Accordion Institute. She taught both private students and classes for several years and ended up marrying the boss - our dad, Al Trick. Mom would travel between the schools in St Louis and Dallas to relieve teachers for their vacations. Together they promoted concerts and workshops featuring renowned accordion artists. She and my Dad were officers in the beginning years of the Accordionists & Teachers Guild, International (ATG), where she handled memberships and dues. She loved performing in the booth at the State Fair of Texas every year and attending accordion conventions. In her later years Mom loved coming to Texas and working the registration desk with me at the yearly conventions for the National Accordion Association (NAA) and seeing all of her old friends as they came by. More recently, Mom attended meetings at the Florida Accordion Association in Orlando, where she had been living for 28 years. Even though she couldn't play anymore, she loved to listen to others. Mom came to Texas last January after falling and cracking two ribs to stay with me and recover. After a few days, she developed pneumonia and was put on a ventilator. She survived that, but over the past year, her condition deteriorated and she continued to live with me until she passed away very peacefully last Sunday evening. Accordion Rose, Rose Oliver - Corpus Christi |