FICKES, Don Fredrick

SINN, FICKES, CHILES, WILLIAMS, JOHNSON, WALKER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 6/30/2016 at 03:50:19

Obituary ~ Don Fredrick Fickes
June 08, 1928 ~ November 29, 2001

Don Fredrick Fickes, Leon, son of Orville O. and Lula May Sinn Fickes, was born June 8, 1928, at Clive in Polk County and died Nov. 29, 2001, at the Decatur County Hospital in Leon. He was 73.

Mr. Fickes lived and farmed at Cumming for 30 years and worked at Firestone Tire Company from 1952 to 1982.

He married Verna Mae Chiles on July 1, 1966, at Princeton, Mo. The couple became the parents of three children, Edward, Laura and Dona.

The couple moved to the Leon area in 1978 where Mr. Fickes farmed and continued to work at Firestone. He milked cows until 1985. He was an avid horse trader. In his younger days he broke horses. He loved gardening and selling his harvest.

Mr. Fickes was a member of the Decatur County Saddle Club, the Quarter Horse Association, and the Appaloosa Horse Association.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a half sister, Evelyn and three half brothers, John, Dick and Dale Fickes.

Mr. Fickes is survived by his wife of Leon; a son, Ed Fickes and his wife, Brenda Fickes, of Van Wert; two daughters, Laura Williams and her husband, Lonnie Williams and Dona Fickes, all of Leon; daughter-in-law, Dianna Johnson and her husband, Roger Johnson, of Mount Ayr; nine grandchildren; a sister, Deloris Walker of California; three nephews; a niece and other relatives and many friends.

Funeral services for Mr. Fickes were Dec. 1 at Slade-O’Donnell Funeral Home in Leon, the Rev. Max Carmichael officiating. Casket bearers were Steve Cummings, Chris Petty, Tony Jackson, Tom Whirrett, Eric McClure and Tod Zion.

Interment was in the Linn Grove Cemetery at Prole in Warren County.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2016