Sad News

[Buddy Marson]

John C. "Hick" Hickerson Jr., 88 passed away after a brief illness on Monday, March 2, 2015. Hick retired from Continental Grain Company after 41 years of service. A member of the PGCA and contributor to the Parker Pages Hick enjoyed hunting, fishing and tennis which kept him active for many years. Hick will be greatly missed by all that knew him.

[Mike Franzen]

RIP Hick

[Kevin McCormack]

Buddy, I will surely miss this great old guy! His tales of quail hunting in Tidewater VA in the 1930s and '40s were priceless. We sat for almost an hour discussing the finer points of "Seniors' Tennis" (I think it was the Southern SxS) years ago. What a live wire!

[Eric Eis]

I was just talking to Rich Anderson about Hick, wondering how he was doing. His stories about duck hunting and quail hunting in the day..... kept both of us just listening. He would go along with us as we shot a round and tell us different stories, we always offered him a gun but he passed and then tell us another story. What a wonderful man that will be greatly missed. We lost another "good one". Eric

[Dean Romig]

Now there's a Southern Gentleman who will be missed. As was said before, RIP Hick - you've brought pleasure to a lot of us here on the PGCA Forums and in our journal.

[Ed Blake]

My son Edward and I used to shoot skeet with him at Oceana NAS. He was originally from Kansas City (I think) and came to Va when he joined the Army Aircorp near the end of WW2. He was around 17 or 18. He said he learned to fly Thunderbolts, but never saw action as the war ended. He met a nice girl and settled down in Norfolk. He was a great guy and full of stories. I remember him at one of the early Southern SxSs having a cool one with another dearly departed PGCA member (Rodger the Codger). They were two happy and contented men. There's a picture of them floating around here somewhere.

[Bill Murphy]

Hick was some gunner. However, he would not participate in the shooting activities at the Southern, even though I and several others offered to provide him with guns, ammunition, and entry fees. I could listen to him for hours. Sadly, he would not come back to visit for the last several years. See you soon, old hunter.

[Dave Suponski]

Very sad news. What great southern gentleman.I just thinking of him the other when I was holding a tin of "Hicks Primers". He will be missed.

[CraigThompson]

My son Edward and I used to shoot skeet with him at Oceana NAS.

Did he shoot NSSA competitively , say 30 or so years ago ?

I just wonder if I may have come in contact with him at Arrowhead , Gretna , The Great Eastern in Richmond , Fairfax , Fredricksburg or Piedmont at a NSSA shoot .

[Larry Stalnaker]

RIP

I didn't have the pleasure of meeting you, but some one that touched as many lives as you did and left such good memories will be sorely missed!

PopPop

[Bill Murphy]

Craig, I will check my NSSA average books. They go back to 1933 so I shouldn't have any trouble finding him. I'm one sick puppy.

[Ed Blake]

Did he shoot NSSA competitively , say 30 or so years ago ?

I just wonder if I may have come in contact with him at Arrowhead , Gretna , The Great Eastern in Richmond , Fairfax , Fredricksburg or Piedmont at a NSSA shoot .

I don't know if he was a competitive shooter or not.

[Mills Morrison]

Bad news

[Allen Peterson]

RIP Hick

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Another empty chair at the table, RIP, Gary

[Dean Romig]

Reminds me of an old church hymn - "We shall meet but we shall miss you."

[Mark Conrad]

This is another example of the PGCA bringing like minded people together. I hunted in the same area ( Back Bay ) as Hick for many years years and never met him until he looked me up at the local skeet range. We had several mutual friends but the Forum got us together. Hick was a great guy and will be missed. RIP Hick

[Bill Murphy]

Craig, I was not able to determine that Hick shot any NSSA skeet back to the sixties. Just in case, I will continue to search back into the fifties, but I'm not sure he was a VA resident that far back. I never saw Hick fire a shotgun, but I can only imagine what the results would be if he had. My assumption was always that he knew which end the shot comes out.

[Greg Phillips]

Enjoyed about three visits with Hick at the Southern. What a gentleman, loved his contributions too the PP as well. About a month ago myself Rich and Eric were discussing Hick.

Really lost a great one there... RIP Hick and condolences to his family.

[CraigThompson]

Craig, I was not able to determine that Hick shot any NSSA skeet back to the sixties. Just in case, I will continue to search back into the fifties, but I'm not sure he was a VA resident that far back. I never saw Hick fire a shotgun, but I can only imagine what the results would be if he had. My assumption was always that he knew which end the shot comes out.

Look in the 80's and early 90's . I started maybe 1985 and stopped in 1993 or so .

[Bill Murphy]

I will do that, but I have already looked in the 80s and early 90s. I will keep searching.

[CraigThompson]

I will do that, but I have already looked in the 80s and early 90s. I will keep searching.

I still have the yearbook for 1992 , that was the last year I shot my minimums . Anyway he's not listed in the back of that one , he may have been a member but he shot NO registered targets in 1992 .

So with that being the case I doubt seriousely if I ran across him back then . Although there were a pile of folks that shot out of Oceana NAS and Langley AFB back then .