Mildred Marie Hicks

Mildred Marie Hicks was born at home in Marble Falls, Texas, assisted by a mid-wife on February 28, 1943, the youngest of fifteen children. By the time she entered school, the family had moved to New Hope (Cedar Park Texas), then to Georgetown, Texas, and finally Liberty Hill, Texas. Shortly after graduating from high school, she married J. W Hicks, Jr., and for the next 72 years lived in Liberty Hill and remained married for 63 years. They raised two sons, Marty Devin Hicks (wife Candy) of Liberty Hill and Bradley Navell Hicks (wife Vicki) of Leander, Texas.

She is preceded in death by her mother and father, Vina and Henry Cantrell, brothers Merlin (Shorty) Cantrell and Thelma (wife), Jay Cantrell and Golda (wife), Floyd Cantrell and Carmella (wife) Charles Delbert Cantrell and Helen (wife), Henry Lee Cantrell and Clara (wife), Claude (Dobbin) Cantrell and Donne (wife), Bill Cantrell (half-brother) and Emma (wife), Ruben Cantrell, and sisters Dorothy Cantrell and Thomas (husband), Anna Loue Holder and Prior F. (husband), Bernice McCarthy and Doarse (husband), La Von Holder and Donald (husband), Mell V Watters and Quintus (husband), and Clara Ann Cantrell (half-sister).

She is survived by four grandchildren, ten great grand-children, and many nieces and nephews.

Mildred obeyed the gospel of Jesus Christ and was baptized into the Highway 29 Church of Christ in 1962. She was an inspiration to her entire family and the community, as a whole.

She worked as a homemaker until her boys became teen-agers, where she developed a number of crafts to assist the family living, including sewing for the family and the public, baking wedding cakes for the public, selling milk and eggs, canning vegetables, owning and managing a plant nursey in Marble Falls, Texas, and eventually retiring from EDS. In addition, she belonged to the Liberty Hill Garden Club and served on the Liberty Hill Cemetery Board of Directors.

She died while living in the Bertram Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bertram, Texas, after battling Alzheimer’s.

A visitation for Mildred will be held on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from 4:00pm to 7:00pm at Cook-Walden Davis Funeral Home, 2900 Williams Drive, Georgetown, Texas 78628. The funeral service will be held at 2:00pm on Thursday, June 5, 2025 at Cook-Walden Davis Funeral Home. Mildred will be laid to rest at Liberty Hill Cemetery, 16101 TX-29, Liberty Hill, Texas 78642, following the service.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.