Eunice S. Hickman

She was a lifelong resident of the Lower Steele Creek community. As an educator for thirty-eight years, she taught in the Fort Mill schools, Charlotte City schools, and twenty-five years as an outstanding science teacher at Charlotte Country Day School. She was a pioneer in Outdoor and Environmental Education in North Carolina and received many local and state awards for her contribution to students in public and private schools, the YMCA Camp Thunderbird, and Senior Scholars programs. She was active in many professional organizations, including Delta Kappa Gamma, an International Women’s Honorary Education Sorority.

Reared in Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, she later became a charter member of Covenant Presbyterian Church. For many years she was active in Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the Charlotte Nature Museum Junior High Roundtable Science Program, the Charlotte Amateur Astronomy Club, Rock and Mineral and Fossil Clubs, and the Mecklenburg Archaeological Society. After retirement from teaching in 1986, she taught teacher workshops in Piedmont North Carolina and was a consultant for Outdoor and Environmental Education in various public school systems. Starting in 1990 and after travelling extensively, Dolly devoted herself to volunteer services for senior citizens both in and out of institutions and assisting in veterinary surgeries at Long Animal Hospital in Charlotte, NC.

Dolly was preceded in death by a son, J. W “Buck” Hickman III, a brother, H.K. “Dick” Sledge, Jr., and a grandson, J.W. “Bucky” Hickman VI. Survivors include two children; Robert Stanley Hickman and his wife, Helen, of Fayetteville, GA and Judy Hickman McLawhorn and her husband, Mack, of Engelhard, NC. Grandchildren are Dana Hickman Weaver and her husband, Tony, of Fayetteville, GA and David Stanley Hickman and his wife, Christie, of Canton, GA. Great Grandchildren are Anthony Weaver, Jr. and Elizabeth Weaver of Fayetteville, GA and Ryan Hickman of Eliot, ME. Nephews are Ken and George Sledge and nieces are Mary Anne Sledge and Billie Sledge Erwin.

A memorial service will be held at McEwen Pineville Chapel, 10500 Park Road, Charlotte, NC on Saturday November 29, 2014 at 11 am where the family will receive friends following the service. The family requests that memorial donations be made to Crisis Assistance Ministry, 500A Toomey Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28203 or consider planting a tree or flower or adopting a pet in memory of Dolly.

In honor of her many students who entered the science, medical and educational professions, Dolly bequeathed her body to the Wake Forest School of Medicine.

McEwen Pineville Chapel is in charge of arrangements.