Violet Hicks
Violet Reese (Shandy) Hicks, 86, died June 19, 2002, at Mountain View, Mo. She was born Jan. 6, 1916, near Mountain View, the daughter of Jim and Grace Renegar Reese. She graduated from Birch Tree High School.
On July 6, 1935, she married Kenneth Shandy. They had three children. They farmed in the Mountain View and Summersville area until his death in April 1956.
She then enrolled and graduated from cosmetology school and had her own beauty shop in Mountain View for 16 years.
June 9, 1972, she married Earl Hicks and moved to a farm at Cedar Point. She established another beauty shop and ran that business for nine years in addition to her duties on the farm. After the death of her husband, Earl, in March 1997, she moved back to Mountain View to be near relatives and friends.
She belonged to the Assembly of God Church in Mountain View.
Survivors include two children, James L. Shandy and wife Sandra, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Sharon Sinclair and husband Edward, Birmingham, Ala.; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Other survivors include her sister Ruby Leonard and brother, Jimmie Reese, both of Mountain View, and brother Roy Reese, Birch Tree, Mo.
Services were held June 22 at Yarber Chapel in Mountain View, Mo., with Ross Marshall and Bill Reese officiating.
