We would like to offer our sincere support to anyone coping with grief. Enter your email below for our complimentary daily grief messages. Messages run for up to one year and you can stop at any time. Your email will not be used for any other purpose. Betty Rose as she was called by friends and family was the only granddaughter of her maternal grandmother, who lived with her. She had two uncles and one aunt that had no children.
She was the princess of the family. She excelled in academics and was the valedictorian of Orangeburg High School. She made good decisions all her life, most importantly marrying J. Virgil Hicks. He was the youngest in a family of five. She loved being married and becoming a part of his big family.
The Hicks Family adopted the small Whitaker Family and they became the best of friends throughout their lives. Betty Rose and Virgil were a couple and a team for 70 years until his death in She was active at First Baptist Church serving as a Sunday school teacher.
In Virgil retired and they moved to Hilton Head and during those years traveled across the United States multiple times. They had an active and interesting retirement. Four years ago Betty Rose and Virgil moved to Mt. Pleasant to be closer to their children. Pampered child as she was, she was not made familiar with the kitchen.
Her married life cooking file only included a dozen or two recipes half of which involved a can of mushroom soup. Her children can recite these meals from memory today. While Betty Rose was not much of a cook, she did enjoy food if it included a mountain of salt, buckets of sugar and pounds of butter. She was a medical marvel eating what she did, living to be 92 and never weighing more than 98 pounds in her life!! What she lacked in kitchen abilities she more than made up in homemaking skillsβ her home was immaculate.
