Obituary of Marjorie Hicks

Services for Marjorie Ann Tupa Hicks are scheduled for 1:00 p.m., Monday, February 2 at the Cottle Funeral chapel, Troup, with Dr. Daylon Hicks officiating. Burial will be at Pinecrest Cemetery, Troup. Visitation will be from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Sunday, February 1, at the funeral home. Marjorie Hicks left the arms of her loving family on January 29, 2009 at the age of 76. She was born on March 10, 1932 in Hibbing, Minnesota to the late Bernard Tupa and Charlotte Anderson Tupa. In 1950, she graduated from high school at Merrill, Wisconsin. She was raised in the Finlander Lutheran Church. She met Platoon Sergeant David L. Hicks at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, and two and a half months later they were married at the Mount Vernon Methodist Church in Washington, DC. She was a devoted and great Army wife and mother. When her husband attended the University of Texas A&I at Kingsville, Texas, she did her part by helping him through college by working at the Kingsville, Naval Air Station until he graduated with his first degree and commission in the US Army. She raised her children much of the time by herself while her husband was overseas in military duty for his country. All military wives deserve the decorations and not their husbands. After her husband retired from the US Army, they moved to Troup in 1972. Her sweet disposition and demeanor made her loved by all the US Army officers her husband served with and everyone who knew her. She will be greatly missed by her husband, Captain (RET) D.L. Hicks and children. She was preceded in death by two sons, Robert and Steven. Survivors include her husband; three sons and one daughter-in-law, David Hicks, Jr. and his wife Betty, Arp, Daniel Hicks, Tyler and Ty Hicks, Troup; one daughter and son-in-law, Sandra and Todd Evans, Whitehouse; five grandsons, five granddaughters, six great-grandsons and five great-granddaughters; one sister, Florence Mattingly, Stephensville, Maryland; and two brothers, Tom Tupa, Hibbing, Minnosota and Kenney Tupa, Wisconsin. If desired, memorials may be made to The Susan Cohan Kasdas Colon Cancer Foundation, 210 N. Charles St., Suite 2404, Baltimore, MD 21201. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.