Coradell Hickman
July 22, 1930 - November 5, 2023
Coradell Hickman was born to Grover Cleveland and Cora Thacker in Gove, Kansas on July 22,1930. Coradell was one of seven children (Grover, Price, Annabele, Arlene, Mary and James.
Coradell moved to Luray when she was 12 and graduated from Luray High School in 1948.
During this time she met her future husband and love of her life, Clinton Hickman, also from Luray. For over 50 years they were inseparable raising two children; Randall Hickman of Vista, California and Rodney Hickman of Riverside, California. Coradell’s mother-in-law (Edith Hickman) lived with Coradell and Clinton for over 30 years where Coradell, in later years, provided care and loving support.
For over 20 years she owned and operated the Bluebird Beauty Salon in Vista, California in which she thoroughly enjoyed meeting and visiting her clients. Coradell and Clinton briefly moved back to Luray in the early 1970s where Rodney graduated from Luray High School.
In the late 1970s Coradell and Clinton moved back to Vista, California where she began work as an office manager for Las Villas De Carlsbad (Retirement Center) which she enjoyed for over 20 years.
Clinton and Coradell were true partners in life and in each others endeavors. While Coradell was working at what she liked Clinton worked for San Diego County as a construction foreman for over 20 years and then went on to success as a real estate investor and the owner of a street sweeping company which had contracts with five major cities in San Diego County.
There is an adage that goes “You can take the girl out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the girl.” No statement was more true for Coradell. She loved Kansas and all the friends and family that lived and stayed there. For the past several years, Coradell had weekly telephone visits with family and friends which she greatly enjoyed.
Coradell is survived by her son Randall, spouse Ginger and grandson Rory Mark; as well as Rodney Hickman, spouse Patricia and grandson Dakota. She is also survived by her brother James Thacker and his wife Sylvia of Granite Bay, California. As well, she is survived by many nephews and nieces from both the Thacker and Hickman Families.
To sum up the life of Coradell Hickman she was a loving, classy, hardworking, and caring woman who lived a full life and now joins Clinton (her beloved partner in life).
Coradell was taken by the lord on the evening of November 5, 2023 at a skilled nursing facility in Encinitas, California to which she was taken after her stroke five weeks earlier.
Coradell fought and gave it all she could to beat the stroke; however, she was finally beaten by COVID.
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