Wilma R. Hicks

Published 5:00 am Monday, July 12, 2004

Services for Wilma R. Hicks of Monticello are 2 p.m., Monday,July 12, at Monticello Methodist Protestant Church with burial inBethshan Cemetery. Wilson Funeral Home is in charge ofarrangements.

Visitation is Sunday from 5-9 p.m., at the church.

Mrs. Hicks, 83, died July 10, 2004, at Wesley Medical Center.She was born in Monticello on April 1, 1921, to Roan Ready and EllaMae Powell.

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She was a retired deputy chancery clerk for Lawrence County with35 years of service. She was owner of Hicks Cafe for 25 years. Shewas past president of VFW Ladies Auxiliary. She was a member ofMonticello Methodist Protestant Church, where she was a member ofW.M.S.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, A.D.Hicks; and three brothers.

Survivors are her daughter, Rebecca Boyd of Monticello; hersisters, Irene Dorien of Boston, Mass, Martha Nell Smith ofLafayette, La., Zella Mae Hartzog and Ella Mae James, both ofJohnson City, Tenn., and Dorett Hartzog of Pascagoula; threegrandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and fourgreat-great-grandchildren.