The Life Celebration of Lamar Claude Hicks Jr. was conducted on Friday, November 14, 2025, at Brown-Holley Funeral Home in Rayville with his wife, Dellie Hicks, Methodist minister and pastor of Holly Ridge UMC, officiating.
Claude at age 71 went home to be in the presence of the Almighty on Saturday, November 9th, with plans to sit at the feet of the Christ. He slipped from this life at home with his family gathered around him, after a long term of illness.
Raised in Richland Parish, Claude was born July 11, 1954, in Winnsboro, to parents Lamar Claude and Vera Chisholm Hicks and grandparents Kittrell and Evie R. Hicks and Howard and Belle Bowman Chisholm, all of whom preceded him in death.

