AR HR1025

Recognizes Roland A. Hicks, Jr. and the Hicks Funeral Home for 89 years of service to Hope, Arkansas, with the business opening on March 9, 1934.

Notes that Mr. Hicks attended Gupton-Jones School of Embalming in Nashville, Tennessee and was invited to Hope to open the first Black funeral home in the community.

Documents that the funeral home has been located at 407 South Hazel Street, Hope, Arkansas for the last 50 years after relocating twice from its original strip mall location.

Highlights Mr. Hicks's business practices of accepting meat, vegetables, fruit, and milk as down payments on burial insurance plans and his reputation as the best embalmer in the state at the time.

States that the legacy continues through the fourth generation of licensed funeral directors at the business and directs the Chief Clerk of the House to provide a copy of the resolution to Mr. Hicks's family.