Donnette Hicks Peacock

Sunday, February 20, 1921 - Sunday, July 31, 2016

Mrs. Donnette Hicks Peacock of Slocomb went home to be with the Lord Sunday, July 31, 2016 at her home surrounded by her loving family. 

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at First Baptist Church of Slocomb with Rev. Scott Byrd and Rev. David Williams officiating. Interment will follow in the Slocomb City Cemetery with Sorrells Funeral Home & Crematory of Slocomb directing.

 The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

At all other times the family will receive friends at the home of Diane and James Smith, 153 West Court Street, Slocomb. 

Flowers will be accepted or donations may be made to First Baptist Church of Slocomb, PO Box 428, Slocomb, AL 36375, Pleasant Hill Baptist Youth, PO Box 1149, Slocomb, AL 36375 or Gentiva Hospice, 2740 Headland Ave., Dothan, AL 36303.

Mrs. Peacock was born February 20, 1921 in Slocomb to the late James Hendley and Nettie Viola Davis Hicks. Donnette was a member of First Baptist Church of Slocomb and the Lydia Sunday School Class where she served as treasurer for many years. She graduated from Slocomb High School in 1940. She began working with the Van Heusen Corporation in Geneva. She retired after 45 years of service. Mrs. Donnette and her husband Rayford owned and operated the Slocomb CITGO Station for 25 years. She loved her family and extended family dearly and was there for each and every one of them. Her family and the community of Slocomb will dearly miss her. 

In addition to her parents, her husband, Rayford R. Peacock and her brothers and sisters: Willie Mae Clark, Ina Dykes, Charlie Hicks, Velma Lassiter, Wesley Hicks and Devon Hicks all preceded her in death. 

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Diane and James Harlow Smith, Slocomb; Her granddaughters and their husbands, Nicole (Nikki) and Ryan Hales, LaShea and Trevor Cotton and Brooke and Zach Segrest all of Slocomb; her great-granddaughters: Sydney and Maggie Hales, Cameron and Rayleigh Cotton, Georgia and Wallis Segrest; several nieces, nephews and other extended family and friends. 

Serving as pallbearers: Henley Hicks, Blake Kelley, Hunter Kelley, Brent Nowell, Kevin Hughes, Heston Hicks and Brent Ashmore; Ronald Boutwell and Donnette's great and great-great nephews will serve as honorary pallbearers. 

The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to Karen, Glenda and Shelley of Gentiva Hospice for their compassionate care.