This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cei.2ACEB/3600 Message Board Post: Journal North - January 31, 2003 GLORIA LEE HICKS , 79, of Los Alamos, died Tuesday in her home following a lengthy illness. She was born May 6, 1923, to Leslie and Martha Roberts of Hannibal, Mo. As a young girl she moved with her family to Las Vegas, N.M. where she graduated from Las Vegas High School. She received her certificate in nursing after graduating from Colorado Training School for Nurses and serving her cadet period at Wadsworth General Hospital for Wounded Veterans and Denver General Hospital. She moved to Santa Monica, Calif. to complete her nurses training at Sawtelle Veterans Hospital while supporting the World War II war effort. It was during this period that she met her future husband Johnnie L. Hicks who was a baker in the US Navy. She was married Johnnie on Aug. 20, 1945 at the Santa Monica Distribution Center. After his discharge from the Navy, they moved to her home town of Las Vegas, N.M. to continue their lives and start a family together. Gloria, Johnnie and the oldest two of four ! children moved to Los Alamos in 1951, where he worked as a fireman and she stayed at home to raise her children. She eventually went back to work at the Los Alamos Medical Center where she worked for 15 years as a surgical floor nurse until her retirement. She then took a job with the State of New Mexico performing surveys of licensed nursing home facilities to insure quality care to the elderly. Tired of traveling and being away from home and family for extended periods, she quit to enjoy her retirement. She was preceded in death by her parents, Leslie and Martha Roberts and her two brothers, William and Richard Roberts. She is survived by her husband, Johnnie L. Hicks of Los Alamos; a daughter, Patricia Livingston of Midland, Texas; three sons, Larry and wife Jeanne of Arlington, Texas, Robert Hicks of St. Louis, Mo., and Tom and wife Lori of Pojoaque; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Cremation has taken place and a private memorial service will be held a! t a future date.