Vicki DeLys Hyde

Loving Mom, trusted friend... Vicki DeLys Hyde, age 77, gained her wings and returned to her heavenly home on November 10th, 2020, from Ocala Florida, after a brief illness (unrelated to Covid-19). She was born to famous showbiz parents Vic Hyde and Donette DeLys, who traveled the world with their Vaudeville act. Vicki DeLys was raised by her aunt and uncle on the Howard Hunt family farm in Danville Kentucky, where she graduated Danville High School in 1959, and attended the University of Kentucky's School of Music. Her legacy is her gift of teaching piano, harpsichord, and organ to hundreds of students over the decades in Fort Lauderdale - Florida, Danville - Kentucky, San Diego, and New York, as well as directing musicals for a wide range of community groups. She was a trailblazer as the first female Toastmaster and Area Governor in the 1970s, a motivational speaker, gifted spiritual intuitive, a private pilot with a love of aviation, a paralegal secretary, advertising specialist, and later a children's' entertainer and professional clown for birthday parties. Music was always her passion, entertaining at restaurants and venues on dinner piano, being a dedicated Minister...[more]

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Music/church organist, and choir director at churches of all denominations, along with carrying upward of 30 private students each week. She was known for her keen sense of humor, infectious laugh, colorful hats, love of sustainable living, and the pursuit of always telling the truth and "getting it right", as Hometown Radio's trusted News Director in central Kentucky for more than a decade. Miss Hyde is survived by her daughter, Laura Wood Covell, brother Paul McLeete, sister Toni Sinn, and arrangements are being handled by Roberts of Ocala - Downtown, with a celebration of life being planned for spring of 2021 in Danville Kentucky. For more information, contact Vicki's daughter Laura at LWOODSINGS@aol.com.