Post by fyi on Mar 21, 2007 20:45:24 GMT -5
Dorothy Hickam, 1924-2007
Published Thursday, March 8, 2007
Dorothy Sue Whitlow Hickam, 82, of New Franklin, passed away Wednesday, March 7, 2007, at Boone Hospital Center.
Hickam
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 8, at Davis Funeral Chapel. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Davis Funeral Chapel with Don Smith, Robert Eberhardt, Esther Schraw and Arlene Leszewski officiating. Burial will be at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in New Franklin.
Dorothy was born Oct. 11, 1924, in Blackwater, the daughter of Henry Clay Whitlow and Nellie Elizabeth Mercer Whitlow. She married William Henry Hickam on Jan. 2, 1956, in Fayette.
Dorothy was employed by the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she was head cashier at the student union. She loved her garden, her yard and her flowers and worshiped her grandchildren.
She is survived by her husband, Henry, of the home; and her children, Barbara Ann and husband Arnold Brucks of New Franklin, Karen Sue Ilsley and husband Matt of Columbia, and Billy H. Hickam Jr. and wife Sue of New Franklin. She is also survived by her sisters, Lois Dean Cramer of Independence, Flora Jean Link Springfield, Kathryn Ann Ross of Republic, Laura Marie Hamilton of O’Fallon, Ill., and Marilyn Kay Franz of Hot Springs Village, Ark.; her brothers, Donald Richard Whitlow of Springfield, Charles Oliver Whitlow of Republic, and Henry Curtis Whitlow of Billings; and her grandchildren, Haley and David Brucks, Austin and Paige Ilsley, and Megan and Morgan Hickam.
Friends may register online at www.davisfuneralchapelboonville.com.
Memorials suggested to Children’s Hope International in care of the funeral home. Dorothy believed that every child should have a home.
Published Thursday, March 8, 2007
Dorothy Sue Whitlow Hickam, 82, of New Franklin, passed away Wednesday, March 7, 2007, at Boone Hospital Center.
Hickam
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 8, at Davis Funeral Chapel. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Davis Funeral Chapel with Don Smith, Robert Eberhardt, Esther Schraw and Arlene Leszewski officiating. Burial will be at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in New Franklin.
Dorothy was born Oct. 11, 1924, in Blackwater, the daughter of Henry Clay Whitlow and Nellie Elizabeth Mercer Whitlow. She married William Henry Hickam on Jan. 2, 1956, in Fayette.
Dorothy was employed by the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she was head cashier at the student union. She loved her garden, her yard and her flowers and worshiped her grandchildren.
She is survived by her husband, Henry, of the home; and her children, Barbara Ann and husband Arnold Brucks of New Franklin, Karen Sue Ilsley and husband Matt of Columbia, and Billy H. Hickam Jr. and wife Sue of New Franklin. She is also survived by her sisters, Lois Dean Cramer of Independence, Flora Jean Link Springfield, Kathryn Ann Ross of Republic, Laura Marie Hamilton of O’Fallon, Ill., and Marilyn Kay Franz of Hot Springs Village, Ark.; her brothers, Donald Richard Whitlow of Springfield, Charles Oliver Whitlow of Republic, and Henry Curtis Whitlow of Billings; and her grandchildren, Haley and David Brucks, Austin and Paige Ilsley, and Megan and Morgan Hickam.
Friends may register online at www.davisfuneralchapelboonville.com.
Memorials suggested to Children’s Hope International in care of the funeral home. Dorothy believed that every child should have a home.