WICKER, Ned Joseph "Joe"

WICKER, LOVELACE

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/8/2013 at 23:38:32

Ned "Joey, Joe" Joseph Wicker III, 39, of West University Place, Texas, passed
away at his home on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004. Funeral services were held Monday,
Sept. 13, at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Mason City with Pastor Mark
Luckish officiating. Interment was at the Clear Lake Cemetery. The family
suggests memorials to The Ned "Joe" Wicker III Fellowship in Biomedical
Sciences, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, The Texas A&M University
System Health Science Center, 2121 W. Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030. Make
checks payable to TAMUS HSC Foundation.

Ned was born Aug. 3, 1965 the son of Ned A. and Vera (Lovelace) Wicker Jr. at
Detroit, Mich. Ned was a graduate of Clear Lake High School and the University
of Iowa, and also attended the University of Nebraska. He worked at the Texas
A&M University of Bioscience and Technology and was working towards his PhD. He
was a Research Associate and acting field director of a large molecular biology
group dedicated to uncovering the secrets of folic acid as a preventative
measure against selected birth defects.

Ned was a world traveler, and enjoyed snow skiing, motorcycling, scuba diving
and flying airplanes and helicopters. He was a member of the American Ski
Patrol Association, Associated Pilots of Iowa, and the Eastern Iowa Ski Club.

Ned is survived by his parents, Ned and Vera Wicker, Clear Lake; two sisters,
Vera Michelle Walker and her husband, Sam, Riverside, Calif. and Monica
Minunette Wicker, Riverside; one brother, Keith Werner Wicker and his wife,
Michelle, Midland Park, N.J.; a treasured friend, Motoko Kono, Kacoshima City,
Japan; special friends, Don and Katherine Hendricks, Clear Lake; several aunts
and uncles; his co-workers and many friends, and his special pets, Zoe and
Venus.