Hicks services

Memorial services for Emery Lee Hicks, 58, formerly of Lawrence, will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday at First Christian Church.

Mr. Hicks died March 17, 2005, in Oklahoma City.

He was born Aug. 10, 1947, in Bartlesville, Okla., and grew up in Nowata, Okla.

Mr. Hicks was a high school All-American and played football at Kansas University. He was an all-Big Eight Conference linebacker in 1967 and 1969 and a member of KU’s 1968 Orange Bowl team. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders and played five years in the Canadian Football League and World Football League. He later worked in the Oklahoma oil fields and returned in the 1990s to live in Lawrence.

A reception will follow services at the church.

The family suggests memorials to the KU football program, sent in care of the KU Endowment Association.

Warren-McElwain Mortuary is in charge of local arrangements.

Online condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Hicks.