RAY BOYD DANIEL JOSEPH HICKS

Ray Boyd Daniel Joseph Hicks, 32, of Ava, MO passed away on January 1, 2013 due to injuries sustained in a vehicle accident. He was born on January 21, 1980 in Tecumseh, NE, the son of Ray Boyd Hicks and Lynnette Samantha Gott.

Daniel was a 1999 graduate of Gainesville High School. He loved fixing motors and making vehicles out of parts. He was always ready to help anyone in need, from cutting city trees in the ice storm, to fighting fires or moving someone. He went on a mission trip to Mexico with the Assembly of God church when he was seventeen and helped build a church while there. He loved animals of all kinds and was always rescuing strays he found along the way. Daniel could cut trees and put them exactly where he wanted them to fall. He will be missed.

He is survived by his mother Lynnette Hicks of Gainesville, MO; his father Ray Hicks of Ava, MO; sister Samantha Sweeden of Ava; a nephew Jeffry Sweeden of Atkins, AR; maternal grandparents Jim and Helen Conardy; uncle Joseph Gott of Yakoda, Japan; aunt Brenda Gott of Salem, MO; uncle Joe David Boyer of Gainesville; two step uncles and two aunts Beverly and Mike Duncan of Farmington, MO, Randy and Bobbie Conardy of Hot Springs, AR, Ronny and Melinda Conardy of St Louis, MO, and Sandy English of Festus, MO, and uncles Karl Gott and family, Karol Gott, Kurt Gott and family, Kane Gott and family, Gene Hart and family, great aunt Debbie and Dale Green of Jefferson City, MO; and great uncle Robert Gott of Florida.

He was preceded in death by his maternal grandfather Charles Lee Gott and paternal grandparents Rilla and Dave Boyer and Lucille Hicks.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, January 4, 2013 in the Mammoth Assembly of God Church with Gale Wooten officiating. Burial will be in the Gainesville Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday evening, January 3rd from 5-7 p.m. in the Clinkingbeard Funeral Home chapel, Gainesville, MO. On line condolences may be made to www.clinkingbeardfuneralhome.com.