Hazel. J Hickey

Mrs. Hazel J. Hickey died August 17, 2009, at SkilCare Nursing Center. She was born in Batesville, Arkansas, on April 18, 1930. She was preceded in death by her parents, Lynn and Sadie Elizabeth Rockholt Hill, two brothers, Sherman and Austin Hill, a sister, Ima Hill Taylor, and three husbands, Archie Conway Jones in 1954, James V. Stephens in 1977, and Dr. Thomas H. Hickey in 2000.

Mrs. Hickey is survived by one daughter, Joy Jones Trauth of Jonesboro, two grandsons, Ryan Trauth of Waco, Texas, and Kyle Trauth of Jonesboro, four stepdaughters, Carol Stephens Selig, Ellen Hickey Malone, Nancy Hickey Coates, and Treva Hickey, one stepson, Lowell Stephens, two great-granddaughters, Cathryn and Elizabeth Trauth of Waco, and two special nieces, Nancy Beasley of San Antonio, Texas, and Judy Fisher of Palm Desert, California..

Mrs. Hickey graduated from Batesville High School and attended then Arkansas College, currently Lyon College, in Batesville. Mrs. Hickey worked for the Arkansas Power and Light Company, now Entergy, for 34 years and was the business manager in the Morrilton office when she retired in 1989 and joined her husband’s staff at the Hickey Medical Clinic in Morrilton. She worked as business manager there until Dr. Hickey’s death.

Mrs. Hickey was a member of the Pathfinder Club in Morrilton and served a term as president of the club. She was a past member of the County Board of Governors of the Conway County Hospital and the United Way Board of Conway County. She was a member of the Gideon Auxiliary and the First Baptist Church in Jonesboro where she previously taught a Sunday School class.

Funeral services will be 11:00 AM on Thursday, August 20 at Emerson’s Funeral Chapel with Dr. Bruce Tippit, pastor of First Baptist Church, Jonesboro, officiating and Emerson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Visitation will be from 9:30 – 11:00 also on Thursday. A committal service will be 2:00 P.M., Thursday, at Oaklawn Cemetery in Batesville, Arkansas.

Honorary pallbearers are Stan, Ryan and Kyle Trauth, Dr. Ken Beadles, Roy Secrease, Donald Timms, Archie Baker of Batesville, Scott VanHoose of Morrilton, and Mrs. Hickey’s Sunday School class at First Baptist Church.

For those wishing to leave lasting memorials, the family requests you please consider the Jonesboro Church Health Clinic, 200 W. Matthews, Jonesboro, Arkansas 72401.