Laverne Memorial Cemetery

Laverne, Harper County, OK

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Submitted by: Glenn

Blanche O. (Ford) Hickmon

January 9, 1914 ~ June 16, 1999

Laverne – The funeral for Blanche O. Hickmon, 85, will be 2 PM Saturday in United Methodist Church. The Rev. Gary Holderman will officiate. Burial will be at Laverne Cemetery. Arrangements are by Seeger Funeral Home.

She was born January 9, 1914, at Evening Shade, Arkansas, to Robert Jennings Ford and Leda Obenia Collie Ford and died Wednesday, June 16, 1999, at Vici Nursing Home after a long battle with Alzheimer's.

The family moved to Laverne in 1921, where she attended Laverne schools, graduating with the class of 1933. She then attended Chillicothe Business College, Chillicothe, Missouri. She was employed by Felice and Peralli Canning Company in Gilroy, California, from 1936 to 1938. On January 3, 1938, she married O. Leo Hickmon at Riverside, California. She was active in Laverne Valley Home Demonstration Club and Laverne Garden Club. She served as Secretary of the Laverne Cemetery Association for many years. She was a member of United Methodist Church of Laverne.

Surviving are two sons, Gary of Arvada, Colorado, and Bob of Laverne; daughter, Rita Kusik of Laverne; one sister, Aileen Lockwood of Pendleton, Oregon; and five grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, brother and granddaughter.

Memorials may be made to United Methodist Church or to Laverne Cemetery Association. 

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