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When Lucille Hooper Lockwood was growing up in Sunnyvale, she loved to ride a trolley with her family to Alum Rock Park. Along the way they would stop at a creamery for a 5-cent milkshake. Her love of going on rides and eating treats didn't change much with age.

Her daughter, Marilyn Bernal, says she and her own family would take her mother on trips. At Knott's Berry Farm, Lockwood liked to go on the rides, but Bernal thinks her mother liked the pies better.

Lockwood died on Feb. 4. She was 91.

Lockwood was one of six children born and raised on a 5-acre ranch on Morse Avenue in Sunnyvale. Her father, William Hooper, was the first rural delivery mailman in the city.

Though Lockwood and her family lived for some six years in San Francisco, they returned to Sunnyvale, which she always considered her home.

Lockwood's family had a donkey when she was young. When she had children of her own, her family lived on the same ranch and again had a donkey. Family reunions brought out "city folk," Bernal says, and her mother would hitch up the donkey to a cart for rides around the ranch.

Lockwood told stories of those years many times to family and friends.

She was an easygoing woman with many friends with whom she enjoyed going out to lunch, Bernal says.

While raising three children, she worked for more than 40 years at Schuckl's Cannery.

"She took care of a lot of her elderly friends. She would take them to doctor and dialysis appointments," Bernal says.

She lived alone and drove until she was 90.

Lockwood is survived by two daughters, Marilyn Bernal and her husband Ray of Sunnyvale and Hazel Billings; one son, Edward Lockwood; eight grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.

Services have been held.