March 23, 2018
March 23, 2018
Lynwood, Edith, and the family, We are very sorry for your loss. You will be in our prayers and thoughts.
Ray Frederick Hicks, Jr., 72, a longtime resident of Granville County, passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at Granville Medical Center.
Ray was a native of Granville County and was the son of the late Ray Frederick Hicks, Sr. and Ruth Fuller and was the husband of Annie Goss Hicks. He was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and was retired as a medical technician from Murdoch Center.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM, Saturday, March 24, 2018 in the Eakes Funeral Home Chapel in Creedmoor. Burial will be held in Community Gardens in Stem.
Surviving are his wife Annie Goss Hicks of Oxford, a daughter, Michelle Hicks Debnam (Tommy) of Franklinton, a son, Christopher Ray Hicks (Kim) of Ellabel, Ga., two sisters, Edith H. McDuffie and Stephanie Jane Hicks of Creedmoor, five brothers, Marshall Hicks of Williamsburg, Va., Lynwood Hicks and Howard Hicks of Creedmoor, Charles Hicks of Sidney N.Y. and Michael Hicks of Bahama, a granddaughter , Jessica Debnam, a step-daughter, Martha McKee, three step-grand daughters and two step great grandsons.
Visitation will be held Saturday, March 24, 2018 from 12:30 to 2:00 PM, prior to the funeral at the Eakes Funeral Home in Creedmoor and at other times at 314 Aiken Avenue in Creedmoor, NC 27522.
Flowers are accepted or memorials may be sent to the Wounded Warriors Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas 66675-8517.
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March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018
Edith and Lynwood
I am sorry to hear of the loss of your brother Ray. Please know that you and the Hicks family are in my thoughts and prayers.
I am sorry to hear of the loss of your brother Ray. Please know that you and the Hicks family are in my thoughts and prayers.
March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018
To Annie and the Hicks family: Please accept my sincere condolences with the passing of Ray. Although I did not have the opportunity to know Ray on a personal basis, his passing is very sad. The Hicks family were a part of our church family for a very long time. God's blessings to you all. Love and prayers, Shirley Howard
March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018
Ray's passing fills me with such sadness. He was a wonderful young man, kind and gentle. My mother always said we were cousins in some way. Through Ruth, I think. I enjoyed being in school together and thought of him fondly in the years after I married and moved away. I was so pleased to read about his large family, to know he was surrounded by so many loved ones. Rest in peace.
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March 23, 2018
March 23, 2018
Lynwood, Edith, and the family, We are very sorry for your loss. You will be in our prayers and thoughts.
March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018
Edith and Lynwood
I am sorry to hear of the loss of your brother Ray. Please know that you and the Hicks family are in my thoughts and prayers.
I am sorry to hear of the loss of your brother Ray. Please know that you and the Hicks family are in my thoughts and prayers.
March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018
To Annie and the Hicks family: Please accept my sincere condolences with the passing of Ray. Although I did not have the opportunity to know Ray on a personal basis, his passing is very sad. The Hicks family were a part of our church family for a very long time. God's blessings to you all. Love and prayers, Shirley Howard
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July 22, 2018
by Norm Black
I I first met Ray in 1966 while we were both stationed at Merrell barracks in Nürnberg Germany. we were both assigned to Aviation company, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
after leaving the military in 1967 I didn't see Ray for over 40 years until I tracked him down as well as others from Aviation company and invited them to my house for a week has a form of her Union. It was at that time that I realize how badly raised medical condition was, especially all his serious back problems that created him so much pain and misery over the last 20 years of his life.
Ray was a very smart man and once I left Germany he became our commo chief a position that I had filled.
Are you passing is both sad and sweet in that looking back on the last 10 or 15 years of his life he suffered terribly and it was a blessing when I heard it is passing because that ended all his misery and sorrow that was associated with his injury and now he's with his God where there is no more pain and suffering.