Obituaries: Billy Lloyd Hicks, 1972, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From: March 22, 1972 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American Funeral Held For Billy Hicks Here Tuesday Funeral services for Billy Lloyd Hicks, 30, of 117 Birchwood Dr., Monroe, were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Methodist Church of Winnfield with the Revs. J. C. Skinner and Ken Jacobs officiating. Burial was in Garden of Memories Cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield. Police said that Mr. Hicks was pronounced dead at the scene of a one-car accident in Monroe Saturday night, March 18, 1972. Hicks was being rushed to St. Francis Hospital with a heart case emergency when the mishap occurred. Driver Robert W. Fette, 31, of 126 Birchwood, David Self, 25, of 130 Birchwood, and Don Hudson, 27, of 113 Birchwood, were all in satisfactory condition after being hospitalized. Officals said Fette was driving south on Breard Street near Concordia Avenue when he failed to negotiate a curve, ran into a 5-foot deep drainage ditch and struck a culvert. The car flipped upside down pinning Fette and one of the passengers in the front seat. Police and fireman used pry bars and a wrecker to free the two. Mr. Hicks was a native of Mexia, Texas, and had been a resident of Monroe for the past four years. He was division manager for Sears Roebuck Co., in Monroe and formerly manager of U. B. Carpenter's Store in Winnfield. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Barbara Ann Dees Hicks; one son, Scotty L. Hicks; one daughter, Kim Hicks, all of Monroe; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hicks of Winnfield; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Hicks of Cooper, Texas, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover McClain of Cooper. Pallbearers included James Hall Emerson, D. N. Smith, Breard Carpenter, Gene Waalk, Ron Hass, and David Ferguson.