Vickie Bailey

Vickie

BAILEY

They say they don’t know what they’d do without me. I tell them I don’t know what I’d do without you. ”

Before giving her time and energy into nourishing the Bozeman community, Vickie Bailey was a hairdresser She came to the Bozeman area in 1989 from Lisbon, North Dakota and has been working to make everything, and everyone around her brighter ever since. From Langhor’s Flowerland, to the Care Boutique with Bozeman Health, Bailey’s work has enriched our community and her life profoundly. Her greatest contribution to the Bozeman Community has been her role in opening the Care Boutique with Bozeman Health. “I had good people that helped me develop everything and get things up and running,” said Bailey. The Care Boutique provides cancer patients, survivors, and their families with the social and emotional care they need. A friend of Bailey’s told her about the opportunity during the time she was working as the manager at Langohr’s Flowerland. She was hesitant at first but eventually went on to become certified to be one of only two Mastectomy Fitters in the state of Montana. Bailey gives so much to her patients to help make them feel good and over twelve years later, she is still brightening up their lives. Some of her patients refer to her warmly as their ‘breast friend’. “My patients give me so much,” Bailey says emotionally, “They say they don’t know what they’d do without me. I tell them I don’t know what I’d do without you.” Bailey worked at Langohr’s Flowerland for quite some time before joining Bozeman Health, but also worked hard enough on her own garden to be featured in Bozeman’s Garden and Home tour. She and her late husband Craig were devoted to their yard. When he passed away in 2012 Bailey said it was just too much to keep up on her own. Despite that, Bailey doesn’t sit around. “I keep busy,” she explains, “I’ve gotten up every day to an alarm for, I can’t tell you how many years.” These days Bailey is heavily involved at her church, First Lutheran, volunteering with the altar guild and the choir, as well as decorating the flower displays and helping with Sunday service. Her only daughter Victoria, or ‘Torie’, is a clinical lab scientist living in Belgrade. “Three weeks before my husband died, my daughter gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. I tell people all the time, my husband was such a great guy, God had to give me two to replace him.” During the Christmas season, Bailey is a happy host. When asked what she does for fun, Bailey expressed her love for family, friends, and traveling.