CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Lewis G. Hicks, 13 Feb 2000
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Lewis G. Hicks
2/15/00 

 Lewis Gray Hicks, 75, 118 Ronnie Hicks Road, Elizabethton, died Sunday, 
February 13, 2000, at Johnson City Medical Center. 
 Mr. Hicks was a native of Carter County and a son of the late Isaac and 
Hattie Perry Hicks. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Theodore 
Hicks. 
 Mr. Hicks was Project Manager with Mapes Piano String Company, where he 
had been employed for 43 years. He had served in the U.S. Army during 
World War II where he was a recipient of the Bronze Star. He was of the 
Methodist Faith. 
 Survivors include his wife, Chrystal Grindstaff Hicks; a son and 
daughter-in-law, Ronnie and Sherry C. Hicks, Elizabethton; two sisters 
and brothers-in-law, Mattie and Bill Williams and Dora Marie and Joel 
Hodge, all of Elizabethton; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Fred Hicks 
and Wayne and Ruby Hicks, all of Elizabethton, and Mary Evelyn Hicks, 
Johnson City; and two grandchildren, Joshua Lewis Hicks and Abigail LeAnna 
Hicks. 

 Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. 
 HICKS -- Funeral services for Lewis Gray Hicks, 75, 118 Ronnie Hicks Road, 
Elizabethton, who died Sunday, February 13, 2000, will be conducted at 8 p.m. 
Tuesday, February 15, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with Mr. Clay Bailey and 
Mr. Dan Rutherford, ministers, officiating. Graveside services and interment 
will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, February 16, at Happy Valley Memorial Park. 
Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 
10:30 a.m. Wednesday, will be Bill Schaff, Bob Schaff, Mark Schaff, Frankie 
Schaff, Eddie Harris and Charlie Harris. Honorary pallbearers will be James 
Glover, Harry Hutchins, Glen Grindstaff, Dean Grindstaff, Jim Kyte, Jack 
Hampton, Bill Williams, Joel Hodge, Art Grindstaff, Howard Grindstaff, Victor 
Chirica, Jim Renfro, Norman Peters and employees of Mapes Piano String 
Company. Also his special friends: Jane Schaff, Regina Harris, Lois Schaff, 
Brenda Sams, Marietta Elliott and Secretaries of Mapes Piano String Company. 
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral 
home. Friends may also call at the residence. Family and friends will 
assemble at the funeral home at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to go to the cemetery. 
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.