Obituary

Services were held Friday in Tustin for Amelia Mary Lockney, a

longtime Lido Isle resident remembered for her warmth, generosity and

refinement. She was 86.

Lockney had lived on Lido Isle since the mid-1950s, but was born in

New Plymouth, Idaho. She died July 14.

During her life in Orange County, she devoted herself to a wide range

of cultural and charitable causes. Lockney served as president of the

Lido Isle Women’s Club and chaired the Children’s Home Society Debutante

Ball. She was an active member of the Philharmonic Society of Orange

County, Friends of the Newport Beach Library and the Orange County

Performing Arts Center.

Lockney also devoted a great deal of time to working for Hoag

Hospital. She contributed more than 7,000 service hours to the hospital

and served as president of its auxiliary for three years.

Gordon Bricken, former Santa Ana mayor and past president of the Santa

Ana North Rotary Club, spoke at the service for Lockney, remembering her

as a woman with a gentle but powerful personality.

“She had a lot of virtues that are not held up as public virtues,” he

said. “She didn’t hold a public office, she never wrote a book, she never

did any of those things. Yet everyone who knows her thinks she’s an

important person.”

She is survived by her husband, Martin J. Lockney. They were married

for 61 years.

Bricken said their marriage was one of mutual support and affection.

“They’re just like one person, almost, in the way that they operated,”

he said.