Raymond E. WICKS

WICKS, ERICKSON, COOK, BAILEY, HUFFMAN, MALAND, BASLER, NOSBUSCH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/7/2007 at 09:52:17

BELMOND - Raymond E. Wicks, 71, of Belmond passed away Tuesday (Feb. 6, 2001) in Mesa, Ariz. A funeral service for Raymond E. Wicks will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Belmond with the Pastor Rod Hopp officiating. Burial will take place in the Belmond Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the Dugger Ewing Funeral Home in Belmond and one hour prior to services at the church.

Ray, the son of Cryder and Nettie Erickson Wicks, was born May 15, 1929, in Wright County, near Kanawha. He grew up south of Kanawha. Ray was baptized and confirmed at the St John Lutheran Church near Kanawha. He attended country schools and graduated from Kanawha High School in 1948. Ray was united in marriage with Imogene Cook on Oct. 3, 1949, in Minneapolis, Minn. The couple made their home south of Kanawha where Ray farmed. In 1974, Ray and Imogene moved to Belmond where Ray worked as a salesman for Newton Manufacturing. He would later work for the Eaton Corporation for nine years. Ray and Imogene had spent the last seven winters in Arizona. Ray loved sports, most notably baseball. He began playing baseball in high school and continued, after high school, on local baseball teams in Kanawha and Belmond. He also played on the Kinseth Plumbing fast pitch softball team in Belmond. Ray umpired high school baseball and also did play-by-play for KRIT Radio in Clarion. He very much enjoyed watching the Iowa Hawkeyes, Chicago Cubs and kept a close tab on the Belmond-Klemme Broncos. Ray enjoyed woodworking and giving his wood creations to family and friends alike. Ray was a past member of the Kanawha Jaycees and Lutheran Brotherhood. He was a member of both St John Lutheran Church near Kanawha, where he served as Sunday School Superintendent, and Trinity Lutheran Church in Belmond.

Ray is survived by his wife, Imogene; three daughters, Cindy Bailey and her husband, Bill, of Davenport, Connie Wicks of Iowa City, and Chris Huffman and husband, Joel, of Sergeant Bluff; four grandchildren, Jeff, Amy, Justin and Jordan; one great-grandson, Alex; three sisters, Maxine Maland and husband, Paul, of Charles City, Carole Basler of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and LaVonne Nosbusch of Los Angeles, Calif.; one sister-in-law, Iola Wicks of Chandler, Ariz.; and numerous nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents, a son, Randy in 1996; two babies, Mary Jane and Tommy Ryan, and two brothers, Orville and Everett. Dugger Ewing Funeral Home.

Mason City Globe Gazette
February 11, 2001