Ray Merle Hickman
Obituaries
d page 3D - November 1, 2020
Ray Merle
Hickman
January 18, 1926 - October 8, 2020
Ray Merle Hickman, 94,
longtime resident of Grand
Junction, Colorado, passed away
October 8, 2020, at HopeWest
Hospice.
He was born on January 18,
1926, in Boone, Iowa, to Edith
and John Hickman. He married
Maurina Lewis on March 4,
1951. After seeing her at the bus stop from his apartment window
he declared that was the girl he was going to marry! They were
married for 69 years.
Ray graduated from high school in Boone and soon after joined
the Army and served in WWII. He went to Drake University in
Des Moines on the GI bill, graduating with a degree in Law and
worked for the FBI as a special agent in Des Moines, Springfield,
IL, New York City, Denver, and Grand Junction where he retired.
After retirement he worked as a security consultant for Occidental
Oil in Colorado.
He volunteered at the Grand Junction Public Library, teaching
seniors how to use the computer. He was in Toastmasters, a Mason,
associate guardian of Job’s Daughters for many years and was
active in the United Way. He was a long-time member of the First
United Methodist Church where he sang in the choir, taught Sunday
school and was involved in plays put on by the church. He loved to
sing, read and he loved people. He made whoever he was with, feel
like they were the most important person in the world.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and brothers, Donald,
Ronald, Johnny, Darrel and Everett. Ray is survived by his wife,
Maurina; children, Mark Hickman (Lori), Lauri Cushing (Steve),
Sheri Hickman (John Brazelton), and Brian Kimsey-Hickman
(Missy); ten grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren, and many
nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to HopeWest Hospice,
First United Methodist Church, and the Grand Junction Public
Library.
Services will be held in January 2021 and will be available
virtually
