OBIT: Wicker, Monroe - 1999 - Rowan Co, KY

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Contributed by: Louis M. Stewart Jcarter725@aol.com
Date: June 15, 1999
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The Courier-Journal  Louisville, KY
Copyright 1994

Tuesday, March 8, 1994

NEWS

MONROE WICKER, EX-MOREHEAD ADMINISTRATOR, PRINCIPAL, DIES
FROM STAFF AND SPECIAL DISPATCHES

MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Monroe Wicker, a retired Morehead State
University administrator and former principal, died Sunday at
University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington. He was 86.

He had been in the hospital for about a week.

Wicker joined Morehead in 1947 as director of admissions and
public relations and later transferred to its Breckinridge Training
School as director.

He was instrumental in organizing the university's first
off-campus student training centers, including those at Prestonsburg
and Sandy Hook.

Wicker served as Morehead's director of admissions and public
relations for 24 years and retired in 1971.

He received Morehead's Founders Day Award in 1993 for service.

Wicker also served as principal of Floyd-Knott and Martin high
schools and as superintendent of Prestonsburg schools.

He was a native of Knott County, past president of Morehead
Men's Club and Rowan County Retired Teachers Association, and a
member of the Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky and National education
associations.

Survivors include two sons, Phillip K. Wicker of Somerset and
Terry M. Wicker of Xenia, Ohio; a brother, L.A. Wicker of
Prestonsburg; three sisters, Ina Robinson of Vevay, Ind., and Nina
Maggard and Nora Lee Salmons, both of Hindman; four grandchildren;
and two great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Morehead United
Methodist Church, with burial in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Visitation at Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals will be after 5 p.m.
today.

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