Rachel "Micki" M. Wilcox-Murray

Micki was born December 11, 1928 in the southern Missouri town of West Plains to Ralph and Dona Stallcup, she was an only child and moved to several Missouri towns as her father followed carpentry work. They settled in Kansas City, Missouri where she graduated from Ruskin High School.

As an 18-year-old she met and married Glenn Richardson who was recently back from World War II.

They had a baby boy they named Guy Arthur Richardson in 1952, Eight years later a second baby boy was on the way when she lost her husband to a heart attack. Jeffrey Alan Richardson was born a few months later and with help from Micki’s mother she would sometimes work three jobs trying to make it as a single mother in 1960. One of those jobs was opening her own daycare center in Grandview, Missouri which would allow her to spend more time with her own children. There was a man, Bill Wilcox, who worked as an engineer trying to make it as a single dad that would drop off his two-year-old son Scott Wilcox for care while he was at work. Three years later Mickie and Bill were married.

They would buy acreage in the woods near Lee’s Summit thinking it would be a good place to raise boys. She would later say those were the best years of her life.

Bill and Micki worked together building a real estate investment company which finally allowed the former depression era kids to have more than they grew up with.

In these years she gave birth to a baby girl, Nita Kay Wilcox, who passed away as an infant, and who Micki would still speak of longingly through her final years.

Bill developed emphysema so they moved to central Arizona so that he could live longer and more comfortably. They had a number of more very good years until Bill was also taken from her.

It was a few more years later when she met and married a neighbor, Jack Murray.

She had 10 years of fun and travel enjoying life with Jack who had been a firefighter and was also taken from her by emphysema. She said she had three, smart, loving husbands who she would never have left.

She had always had a strong love of animals and spent time helping them, plus a passion for quilting for which she won a couple of prizes. In Arizona she started hiking and did that for many years, including a hike of the Grand Canyon in her early 60s. She spent her final several years at an assisted living apartment in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

She leaves behind a son Jeff Richardson; step-sons Scott Wilcox and Glenn Richardson; and daughter-in-law Patti Richardson; grandchildren John Wilcox, Mary Foss, Paul Wilcox, Dylan Howie-Richardson; and 4 great-grandchildren.

A burial for Mickie will be held Wednesday, September 13, 2023 from 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM at Belton Cemetery, 710 S. Scott, Belton, MO 64012.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.mcgilleygeorgebelton.com for the Wilcox-Murray family.