Pryor Chester Hicks

Pryor C. Hicks was born the oldest son of the late James and Ella Hicks, on November 29, 1948, in Atlantic City, NJ,

Influenced by his military father, Pryor received a business degree and graduated from the United States Army Officer Candidate School as a Commissioned Lieutenant.  He was a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare Officer and served in Vietnam in the 123rd Airborne Brigade. Pryor then retired as a Captain.

Besides English, he spoke German, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Pryor’s mother (A Jehovah's Witness) never gave up. No matter where Pryor traveled in the United States, Germany, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam, she always sent him Watchtower and Awake! Magazines.  Before she passed, she saw Pryor get baptized as a Jehovah's Witness, become a ministerial servant, and marry his wife Sandra.

Pryor and Sandra had two daughters, Tiffany and Cherese, who were both baptized Jehovah’s Witnesses. In 1990, Pryor accepted a job and moved his family to Virginia. He worked for the DOC (Department of Corrections). He requested and got approval for brothers from the local Kingdom Hall to lecture and hold Bible studies with the prison inmates.  In 2011, he retired from the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail.

For the last twenty-five years, he served as a devout Christian in the Denbigh South Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. What kept Pryor's faith and hope alive? He never forgot in all his travels, when he was young and when he was old, that he had not seen any Jehovah's Witnesses abandon their children looking for bread (Psalms 37:25).  To his wife Sandra, daughters, Tiffany Hicks Cuadrado and Cherese Hicks Blackwell, his grandchildren, Nathan Blackwell Hicks and Yihcia Hicks, and those who mourn, you will be comforted, your reward is great, you will inherit the earth (Matthew 5:4-5).  Continue praying that your love [for Jehovah and the brotherhood] may abound still more and more with accurate knowledge and full discernment as you make sure of the more important things (Phil 1:9-10).

He is predeceased by his brothers, Russel Hicks and James Hicks.  Pryor is also survived by his three sisters, Jane Hicks Vaughan, Marion Hicks, and Rosemarie Hicks Hood, all of New Jersey; and a host of nieces and nephews.

To you all; be courageous and strong, for Jehovah is marching with you. He will neither desert or abandon you (Deut 31:6) UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN!

Military honors will be rendered at 4:00 p.m. Friday, May 2, 2025, at Whiting’s Funeral Home, followed by a viewing until 7:00 p.m.  A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, May 3, 2025, at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses - Denbigh South.  Interment will be at a later date at Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery, Suffolk.

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Professional services have been entrusted to the staff of Whiting’s Funeral Home, 7005 Pocahontas Trail, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 757-229-3011 whitingsfuneralhome.com

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