Quentin Hampton Kicklighter, resident of Brevard, NC, passed away gently during the night of Oct. 20, 2010. Mr. Kicklighter had moved here six years ago, to be close to his son and family, Sammy, Wendy and Samuel Kicklighter of Pisgah Forest, who had moved here in 2004. He had been a resident at The Oaks of Brevard and previously at Cedar Mt. House, in Cedar Mt. NC. Mr. Kicklighter was a member of the Pisgah Forest Baptist Church congregation.
Mr. Kicklighter was born in South Georgia, in the rural town of Glennville, graduated from Glennville High School in 1936. Next he attended the University of Georgia and graduated there in 1940. Mr. Kicklighter was a faithful and diehard Bulldog and loved when Georgia play each fall.
During WWII, he served in the Marine Corps until injured, but then joined the ranks of the US Army, where he served with America's Greatest Generation. He was in the Persian Gulf when the war ended and soon was stationed at Kuwait. After the war, he taught agriculture classes to GIs coming home from the war under the GI Bill. Later became a full time farmer himself in south Georgia, until his death.
Mr. Kicklighter was a Mason, in the Philadelphia Lodge in Glennville and was a former deacon of the First Baptist Church in Glennville.
He is survived by his only sister of Auburn Alabama, Vondelle Kicklighter Miles, formerly of Metter, GA; one son Sammy Kicklighter and wife Wendy Kicklighter and one daughter Jill Kicklighter Hardwick and husband John Hardwick; four grandchildren, Samuel Kicklighter of Brevard, NC, Robb Kicklighter and family of Statesboro, GA., Hannah Hardwick of St. Simons GA. and Lauren Hilton of St. Simons GA. Mr. Kicklighter also had one niece and two nephews and numerous cousin all in south GA.
Funeral services will be in Glennville, GA Thursday Oct. 28th, at 12 noon at Glennville First Baptist Church with the pastor Danny Hedgepath of First Baptist Church, Brevard, NC presiding. Burial will be in the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Glennville, Ga.