Merle Robert Hicks

Merle Robert Hicks, 92, of Yakima, Wash., formerly of El Dorado Springs, Mo., died Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Friday, Jan. 3, at Sheldon Funeral Home, El Dorado Springs, Mo., with burial in the Missouri Veterans Cemetery, Higginsville, Mo. Family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 2, and from 9 a.m. until service time, Friday, Jan. 3, in Sheldon Funeral Home.