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Tucker -- Thelma Rose Tucker, 87, died peacefully on November 18, after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She faced her condition with beautiful smiles and, earlier, outrageously funny witticisms. Even late in her disease she had an"I love you" and"you're beautiful" for everyone in her family and in her loving community. Born in San Francisco on August 21, 1912, she spent most of her youth in Cocoran, California, and most of her 62 years of marriage in Santa Cruz and Watsonville, California. After the death of her husband, she came to Albuquerque, where she lived first at Manzano del Sol, and then at St. Mary Rest Home. Thelma thoroughly enjoyed almost everything she did. She was a talented master of tatting and crochet, and other handwork. She never met a cat she didn't like, and she loved chocolates and everything sweet. She enjoyed beer (and she drank it with a straw!) Even into her eighties, she delighted in sunning herself to keep her legs tan. She sometimes said"when I am an old woman I'll wear purple", and indeed she did. She was preceded in death by her parents, Hugh and Rose Greer and husband, Art. She is survived by her sister, Alice Darland; her daughter, Carol Tucker Trelease; three granddaughters, Ann Tuchler, Sarah Tuchler, and Ada Portman; and great-granddaughter, Taylor Portman. Cremation has taken place, and her cremains will be buried with her husband in Santa Cruz, California. There will be a Mass for Thelma at St. Mary Rest Home, 205 Seventh Street NW, in Sunday, November 28, at 8:30 a.m. A reception will follow. If you wish to remember Thelma, please do so with a gift to a charity.
        Published on: Tue November 23, 1999