Connie Jo WICKS

WICKS, HUFFMAN, BAILEY, COOK, HARRINGTON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/31/2015 at 16:16:34

April 20, 1956 --- January 27, 2015

Connie J. Wicks, age 58, of Iowa City formerly of Belmond passed away Tuesday January 27, 2015 at her residence in Iowa City. Memorial services for Connie J. Wicks will be held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday February 1, 2015 at the Dugger Funeral Home, 111 Luick's Lane South in Belmond. Pastor Alan Shulz will officiate. Burial will take place at a later date in the Belmond Cemetery. Friends may greet the family one hour prior to services at the funeral home on Sunday. In Iowa City, a memorial visitation for Connie J. Wicks will be held from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. Saturday January 31, 2015 at Southeast Junior High School Large Meeting Room. Eastern Iowa Friends and relatives are invited to attend to share memories and stories of Connie. Memorial contributions may be made in Connie Jo Wicks name to the family.

Connie Jo Wicks was born on April 20, 1956 to Ray and Imogene Cook Wicks in Belmond. She grew up in and attended school in Belmond. During her high school years she was involved in basketball and track. Connie graduated from Belmond High School in 1974. After graduation she went to Westmar College and graduated from there in 1978.

Then the road trips started, the schools where she taught included Malcolm, Nebraska, Cherokee, Mediapolis, LeMars, West Liberty, West Lyon and Iowa City. Connie took great pride in what she did and the kids she worked with. Connie was a very caring and giving individual for her family, co-workers, to her kids and athletes she worked with. If anyone needed anything, she would drop everything and go help wherever she could. She loved people around her and dog. Most of all, Connie She is going to be greatly missed.

Connie is survived by her sisters Cindy Bailey and her husband, Bill of Davenport, and Chris Huffman and husband Joel of Sergeant Bluff; four nieces and nephews; Jeff, Amy, Justin and Jordan. Numerous other relatives and friends. She is preceded in death by her parents, brother Randy and two infant siblings Mary Jane and Tommy Ryan, and an aunt Marian Harrington.

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Connie J. Wicks, age 58, of Iowa City formerly of Bemond passed away Tuesday January 27, 2015 at her residence in Iowa City. Memorial services for Connie J. Wicks will be held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday February 1, 2015 at the Dugger Funeral Home, 111 Luick's Lane South in Belmond. Pastor Alan Shulz will officiate. Burial will take place at a later date in the Belmond Cemetery. Friends may greet the family one hour prior to services at the funeral home on Sunday. In Iowa City, a memorial visitation for Connie J. Wicks will be held from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. Saturday January 31, 2015 at Southeast Junior High School Large Meeting Room. Eastern Iowa Friends and relatives are invited to attend to share memories and stories of Connie. Memorial contributions may be made in Connie Jo Wicks name to the family.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Mason City, Iowa
January 30, 2015

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South East mourns loss of special-education teacher by Holly Hines

South East Junior High this week lost a beloved staff member, Connie Wicks, a special education teacher who died early Tuesday morning. Wicks' sister, Chris Huffman, said Wicks, who didn't have children of her own, was very devoted to students at South East. She said Wicks was passionate about making education fun for kids.

"Those kids at school were like her children," Huffman said. She said Wicks, originally from Belmond, died of natural causes at age 58, and that she didn't seem sick in the days before she died. Wicks is survived by another sister, Cindy Bailey, who lives in Davenport.

During Tuesday's Iowa City Community School Board meeting, board President Chris Lynch called for a moment of silence in Wicks' honor.

Wicks began working as a special-education teacher at South East in 2004. She started her career in the Iowa City Community School District in 1992 as a special-education teacher at City High. She also coached track, volleyball and basketball and was a pom pom sponsor. South East Principal Matt Degner said Wicks was a fun-loving person who had many valuable relationships with staff and students. He said staff provided grief counselors at South East on Wednesday and would continue to provide them in coming days.

"She just made a tremendous impact on those kids and on their families," he said. Huffman, 53, said Wicks' passions outside of teaching included sports, dogs and other animals. She said memories of visiting Wicks in Iowa City to shop and bond as sisters are among her most precious. She said Wicks was a kind, conscientious and giving person. "She always thought of everybody else before herself," Huffman said.

Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City, Iowa
January 28, 2015

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[daughter of Ray and Imogene (Cook) Wicks]; her mother Imogene Wicks died on January 20, 2015 in Belmond;]