Bertie Mae Hickman

MRS. GORDON HICKMAN Mrs. Bertie Mae Weatherford Hickman, 88, former long-time resident of the Culleoka Community, died Saturday, August 2, 2003 at Life Care Center. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 10:00 a.m. at Oakes & Nichols with Bobby Sands and Tim McHenry officiating. Burial will be in the Glennwood Cemetery at Southport. The family will visit with friends after 2:00 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to The Hospital Hospitality House, 214 Reidhurst Avenue, Nashville, 37205.Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at oakesandnichols.com. The Giles County native was the daughter of the late Sam Weatherford and Ruby Williamson Weatherford and a graduate of Jones High School in Lynnville. Mrs. Hickman worked as a seamstress at Dixie Manufacturing Company and Maury Manufacturing Company for a number of years; for 27 years was a dealer with Stanley Home Products and retired in 1990 at the age of 75 from Hospital Hospitality House in Nashville. She was a member of the Westvue Church of Christ in Lewisburg amd a former member of the Stiversville Home Demonstration Club.Her husband of 51 years. William Gordon Hickman, died January 19, 1986.Survivors include four sons and daughters-in-law, James and Maude Hickman of White Lake, Michigan, Billy and Carolyn Hickman and Mike and Judy Hickman of Culleoka, Doug and Bonnie Hickman of Columbia; two daughters and sons-in-law, Joyce and Bob Dugger of Spring Hill and Linda and Wayne Tomlin of Mt. Pleasant; a brother, Clyde Weatherford of Maryland; three sisters, Ruth Wells of Michigan, Geri Horsley of Murfreesboro; Brownie Templeton of Hendersonville; 17 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; 7 great-great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.She was preceded in death by a son and daughter-in-law, Dean and Peggy Hickman, three grandchildren, James Hickman, Jr., Jennifer Dee Dugger, Joyce Marie Hickman and two brothers, Gerald Weatherford and Joe Weatherford.Grandsons and grandsons-in-law will serve as pallbearers.