Myrtice Etheleen Hickox Hickox, 85, of Hoboken, passed away Friday afternoon, December 19, 2025, at HCA Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, FL.
Born in Hoboken November 13, 1940, she lived in Farmington, NM for several years before returning to Hoboken four years ago. She was a 1958 graduate of Hoboken High School. She worked in retail as well as in the restaurant business prior to becoming a homemaker. She loved the outdoors whether it was traveling to the mountains, camping, hunting with her husband or sitting outside listening to the birds and looking at the mountains while living in New Mexico. She had enjoyed cooking, reading her Bible and putting puzzles together before her eyesight began to fail. She was a member of Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Hoboken and will be remembered as a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.
She was a daughter of the late Jesse and Ethel Dowling Hickox. She was also preceded in death by a grandson, Dominic Cardenas; all three of her sisters, Effie Mae Griffin, Inez Stokes and Clara Russell and by all four of her brothers, Gillis, Lawton, Fred, and Russell Hickox.
Survivors include her husband of 59 years, Landell Hickox, Hoboken; her daughter and son-in-law, Vickie Hickox and Muhammad Imtiaz, North Port, FL; her son and daughter-in-law, Stacey and Michelle Hickox, Farmington, NM; five grandchildren, Steven (Cheyanne) Cardenas, Laticia Cardenas, Michael Cardenas, Hailey Hickox and Skylar Hickox; seven great-grandchildren, Aiden Cardenas, Jordan Hooks, Gabriel Hooks, Elijah Hooks, Grace Cardenas, Eden Cardenas and Clay Baker; a very special niece, Christy Stokes Thomas, Valdosta; her beloved pet dog, Susie and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Visitation will be from 1-2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23, at the Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23, from the Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Arthur Hickox and the Rev. Justin Ennis officiating.
Interment will be in the Moore Cemetery in Hoboken.
Memorials may be made to a charity of the givers choosing.
Sympathy may be expressed by signing the online guestbook at "www.pearsondial.com.
Pearson-Dial Funeral Home of Blackshear is honored to serve the Hickox family during this time.
