Lucretia Ann Hickok

LOMA “Fellow”, Teacher, “Master Gardener”, Traveler, Computer “geek”

A resident of Thirwood Place in South Yarmouth since 2018, passed away on January 14, 2026 at the age of 93.

After graduating from college, Lucretia worked for Aetna Life Insurance in Hartford, CT for 30 years, doing actuarial valuations, computer programming, and investment analysis. After completing a series of 10 examinations, she became a “Fellow” of the Life Office Management Association.

She was married to the late George Hyatt Hickok, faculty emeriti of the Loomis School in Windsor, CT. In Windsor she was the president of the Windsor Garden Club.

She began her second career by becoming a master gardener and worked at the Van Noort Nursery in Windsor Locks. Upon retiring to the Cape, she worked at Evergreen Nursery. She went through various offices in the Brewster Garden Club, Computer Society of Cape Cod, and Viewfinders Camera Club. She sang with the Mid Cape Chorus, painted with a group of Orleans artists, and was a member of the Chatham Digital Camera Club. Her interest in photography goes back to when she was a photographer for her college newspaper, and later a member of the “Nutmegger” Camera Club as well as the Charter Oak Photographic Society in Hartford, CT. She also taught “Beginning Computers” at the Dennis Senior Center.

In CT, she bred, raced, and showed Siberian Husky dogs, and skied New England, Canada, Europe, and Colorado. She has traveled from Greenland and Iceland to Australia and New Zealand, the Orient, all of Europe, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, and Russia to Uzbekistan, as well as North America, Canada, Mexico, and California to Florida. Her final journey brought her to sailing around Cape Horn, and to the North Cape of Norway.

She is survived by her sister, Nancy Mossberg Krone of Carlisle, PA, a cousin, M. Dolores Zutt of Brownsburg, IN and her husband’s family in Sparta, NJ, and Little River, SC. She was also predeceased by her beloved Burmese cat.

Services will be private and Lucretia will be laid to rest with her late husband at the MA National Cemetery in Bourne, MA.