Mr. Tom Edward Hickson, of Bartow, departed this life Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 at the Augusta University Hospital in Augusta.
Mr. Hickson was a native of Jefferson County. He was born the son to the parentage of the late John Thomas Hickson and Rebecca Robinson Hickson. He was united in holy matrimony to Helen Thomas Hickson. He was a member of the Tarver Grove Missionary Baptist Church. He was a High School Graduate of the Wadley High School Class of 1972 and was formerly employed with thermo King Incorporation for over thirty-five years.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and siblings; Charles Hickson and Wallace Hickson.
Survivors include his loving and devoted wife of forty-three years; Helen Thomas Hickson, Bartow, Georgia, children; Duane (Laterria) Hickson, Dallas, Georgia, Camesha Hickson (Steven) Grant, Milledgeville, Georgia, Jennifer Hickson, Austell, Georgia, and Keyisha (Jonathon) Hart, Morrow, Georgia, siblings; Ann (Roy) Hardy, Brooklyn, New York, Cofelia Frances, Bartow, Georgia, John Thomas Hickson, Jr., Bartow, Georgia, Virginia Hickson, Dublin, Georgia, Minnie Gray, Centereach, New York, Ethel Combs, Raleigh, North Carolina, Mazie Snell, Macon, Georgia, and Shirley Brinson, Bartow, Georgia, and a host of loving sisters-in-laws, brothers-in-laws, nieces, nephews, cousins, and other relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, Jan. 14, at 2 p.m. at the Kingdom Life Fellowship International Ministries in Wadley. Burial will follow in the Tarver Grove Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Bartow. Wake services 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at Davis Funeral Home, Louisville.
Family may be contacted at the residence 12291 Highway 221, Bartow, or at Davis Funeral Home, Louisville.
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Davis Funeral Home, 725 Beech Street, Louisville, is in charge of arrangements.