Graveside services for Mr. Hugh Vickers, Jr., 80 years of
age of Manchester, will be conducted on Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 2:00 PM at
Farrar Hill Cemetery. Mr. Vickers passed Monday, July 27th at a health
care facility in Chattanooga.
After graduating high school, Hugh enlisted in the United States Navy
serving from 1958-1961. He retired from
the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department in 1992.
He enjoyed spending time with family, tending to farm animals, and
experimenting with agriculture.
Hugh was preceded in death by his parents, Hugh V. and Rubie Elliot
Vickers, two sisters, Alline Adams and Maggie Vickers, three brothers Leon
Vickers, Lloyd Vickers and Royce Vickers all of Manchester, TN.
He is survived by his special niece Lisa Vickers Brooks of Rock Spring,
GA, Three sisters, Joyce Duke of Manchester, Geraldine Schwabauer of Denver,
Colorado, and Patricia Arnold of Manchester, TN. Two brothers, Stanley
Vickers of Anchorage,
Alaska and Donald Vickers of Lynchburg, Tennessee.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Hospice of
Chattanooga. Coffee County Funeral Chapel is honored to serve the Vickers
family.