HICKS, Eunice E. (Powers) 1923-2008

POWERS, HICKS, KRUGER

Posted By: K. Kittleson - Volunteer
Date: 9/14/2008 at 19:33:09

CHARLES CITY, IOWA - Eunice E. Hicks, age 85, of 604 Milwaukee St., Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa, died on Friday morning, September 12, 2008, at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital.

Private family services were held at Fullerton Hage Funeral Home. Eunice was cremated at Cremation Services of North Iowa and will be buried with her husband at a later time. No public services are planned in accordance to Eunice and Kenneth's wishes.

Eunice lived a full and rich life. She was born on the 23rd of January 1923 in Howard County, Iowa, the daughter of Elbert "Lee" and Theresa "Kruger" Powers. She was a graduate of the Charles City High School, class of 1941.

For the next several years Eunice was a secretary at White Farm. She met the love of her life while roller-skating at Breezy Point. As their love bloomed Kenneth Hicks and Eunice decided to unite in marriage on February 17, 1944, at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charles City where she had been baptized and confirmed. To this union was born two sons and one daughter.

Kenneth was in the service of his country as a chemist and she followed him from camp to camp until he was shipped overseas during World War II. Following his discharge they made their home at several places in Charles City, then building a home south of Charles City where they lived for 20 years until moving back into town in 1973.

For 25 years they spent their winters in the Rio Grand Valley in Texas. Always ones for travel, they spent weekends with the Tent-N-Trailer group and every summer they took a family vacation, visiting all over the United States which included the Columbia River near Portland, Ore., Yellow Stone National Park, Chicago, and down both coasts of Mexico.

Eunice was very artistic and created folk art painting in acrylics and hand stitching quilts. She found a new love in caring for a herb garden and making her own green tea and watching the butterflies and birds that would gather in her garden.

Eunice always found time to spend with her grandchildren so that her daughter, Barb, could go to work.

Those left to remember her loving care include her husband, Kenneth, of 64 years; her sons, Rodney and his wife, Joyce Hicks, of Soddy Daisy, Tenn.; her daughter, Barbara and her husband, Terry Mork, and son, Martin, and his wife, Sandy Hicks, all of Charles City; seven grandchildren: Dustin, Jason, Shiloh, Mindy, Tyler, Austin and Shelby; and five great- grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and by one brother, Lloyd Powers, who died in 1988.

Those wishing to share condolences, stories or thoughts may do so on the funeral home web site at www.Fullertonfh.com. Fullerton-Hage Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 401 Blunt, Charles City, 641-228-4211.

[original obituary web-published in the Mason City Globe Gazette online 9/14/2008 -- www.globegazette.com]