NAME: JOHN ROBERT BOB HICKMAN, JR., AGE 84, LIFELONG RESIDENT OF COALGATE, OK.

BORN: DECEMBER 12, 1914 AT COALGATE TO JOHN ROBERT AND MARY EDITH (NICHOLS) HICKMAN. PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1999 AT WILSON N. JONES HOSPITAL IN SHERMAN, TX. AGE: 84 YEARS 9 MONTHS AND 25 DAYS. EDUCATION: HE GRADUATED FROM COALGATE HIGH SCHOOL IN 1932. MARRIED: HELEN CLEO TURNER ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1940 AT COALGATE, OK. OCCUPATION: HE WAS A RETIRED INSURANCE AGENT. HE OWNED AND OPERATED HICKMAN PRINTING AND THE WIGWAM THEATER IN COALGATE, OK. BOB WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF COALGATE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND A MASTER MASON. HE WAS A WELL READ AND KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSON. BOB LOVED TO TRAVEL THROUGHOUT THE U.S. AND CANADA. HE WAS A TRAIN HOBBYIST AND AVID READER. BOB LOVED HIS FAMILY AND WORSHIPPED HIS GRANDCHILDREN. SURVIVED BY WIFE: HELEN HICKMAN OF THE HOME IN COALGATE, OK. CHILDREN: JOHN STANLEY AND WIFE BRENDA OF COALGATE, OK. TERRY ANN RICE AND HUSBAND STEPHEN OF COALGATE, OK. GRANDCHILDREN: ROBERT WADE HICKMAN, BRAD DAVID HICKMAN, KRISTEN ELIZABETH RICE, CRAIG THOMAS RICE. GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: COURTNEY DE-ANN AND COLIN WADE HICKMAN. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: JOHN ROBERT AND MARY EDITH HICKMAN, SR. COUSIN: VERA N. DEVINEY.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1999 AT 2:00 P. M. PLACE OF SERVICES: GRAVESIDE SERVICE. INTERMENT: COALGATE CITY CEMETERY. OFFICIATING: DR. ROBERT KANARY CASKETBEARERS: NICK LOLLI, BUTCH SMITH, ARCHIE EDDINGS, RONNIE RAINEY, TOM BARNETT, JOE PASQUALI, ARVARD J. MCLELLAN, DAVID MASK. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: FREDDIE BRICE, LARRY BART POPE, DALE ENNIS, LARRY HENSLEY, ROBERT BENSON.