Vera H. Rickets

© Marietta Monitor

9 Apr 2010, page 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Vera H. Rickets, 89, of Marietta, were held at 2 p.m., Thursday, April 8, in the Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home Chapel, with her nephew, Dan Darter, pastor of Spring Valley Baptist Church officiating. Interment followed in Lakeview Cemetery.

Born October 31, 1920 in Marietta to Gayle M. and Alta Rae Lacey Darter, she died Monday, April 5, 2010 in the Lake Country Nursing Center, Marietta, after an extended illness.

She married J.P. Rickets in October, 1938 in Sulphur, and he preceded her in death on June 1, 2002. Mrs. Rickets lived all of her life in the Love County area. She was a homemaker and also helped on the farm and ranch.

Also preceding her in death were her parents, a twin sister and six brothers.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Arthur and Kay Rickets of Marietta; a daughter, Mary Louise Deihl of Ardmore; four grandchildren, Drew Rickets, Lance Rickets, Mary Ann Riley and Jerald Jackson; nine great-grandchildren, Christopher, Andrea, Jordan, Zachary, Casady, Erin, Daylen, Anderson and Shelby; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were her grandsons and great-grandsons.

(Flanagan-Watts)