HICKMAN PATRICK was born January 7, 1914, to W. G. and Edith McKinney Patrick in Kimbrell, Kentucky. He grew up in Hargett, KY in Estill County just a few miles from the homestead of his great grandfather Thomas Patrick who homesteaded in the area no designated as Clark County before Kentucky was a state. In 1931, he graduated from Alvan Drew School in Wolfe County, a Methodist boarding school, and in 1937 from Union College in Barbourville, KY. For ten years, part of them while attending Union, he taught elementary school in one-room school in Estill and in the Hargett Consolidated School, where he met Elise Sams. They married on June 12, 1940. In 1942, he graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture and was honored as Distinguished Alumnus from the Quicksand Region in 1981. He was an avid Kentucky Wildcat Basketball fan. In the fall of 1942, he began a 38-year career of teaching Vocational Agriculture in Lee County High School 1942-1948, Owsley County High School 1948-1959, and Lee County High School 1959-1980. He taught many in these two counties, advising them in FFA, supervising their farming programs, taking them on trips to FFA Camp, the Kentucky State Fair, and the FFA Convention, encouraging them find their place and do their best. Since agriculture was an Essential Occupation during WWII, he contributed to the war effort by running a cannery teaching adult farming classes at night and supervising a Veteran's Training Program in agriculture as the war ended. He was a lifetime member of the Farm Bureau, having been a founding member of the Owsley County Chapter organized in 1944. He served on the board for several years and was president from 1982-1987. He was a member of the Booneville Lion's Club and served as its president. He was very interested in public libraries and the availability of books for his students and community. As a teacher in the one-room schools, he carried books to his school from the Board of Education. In Owsley County he served as the Chairman of the Owsley County Public Library Board of Trustees from 1974-1989. While Chairman of the Board, he was instrumental in getting a bookmobile for Owsley County. Based on the work of the Board of Trustees during his germ of service as chairman, the trustees were awarded in the 1990 Outstanding Board of Trustees Award. He was a lifetime member of the Friends of the Owsley County Public Library. The library was written u pin the Lexington Herald as "the Little Library that Could" its success in building library and programs finding ways to fund this with little money. A generation of children in Owsley County along with his grandchildren knew him as the "real" Santa Claus at the public library and a local retail business. He vividly remembered making his profession of faith on Sunday morning as a young boy in Jackson's Chapel United Methodist Church and recalled how that day, as he rode home from church in the buggy between his father and mother, the sun shone brighter than he had ever seen it. He supported this church for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Booneville Methodist Church for 32 years serving as Sunday School Superintendent and Sunday School teacher of high school-aged students for all of those years. He retired in 1980 and moved to Burgin, Kentucky in 1987, where he became a member of the Burgin Methodist Church. He is survived by three of his four children, Frances Clark (Ande) of Nashville, TN, Peggy Branam of Harrodsburg, KY and Bill Patrick (Twana) of Burgin, KY, one son-in-law Barry Crawford (Anne) of Savannah, GA; six grandchildren: Anne Elise Napier (Kelly) and Mary Frances Clark of Nashville, TN, Cathy Crawford (Ben) of Savannah, GA, Patrick Branam (Amy) of Harrodsburg, KY, Laura Colliver (Jeremy) of Finchville, KY, and Susie Patrick of Burgin, KY; and eight great grandchildren: Lillian, Michaela and Rio Napier, Emiline Baxter, Blaine and Molly Colliver, and Braydon and Bryson Branum, a host of nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews of the McKinney, Patrick and Sams families. visitation--Wednesday, December 4, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Alexander and royalty Funeral Home (304 East Lexington Street, Harrodsburg, KY) Visitation--Thursday, December 5, 9:00-10:00 a.m. at the Burgin Baptist Church (433 East Main Street, Burgin, KY) Funeral Service--Thursday, December 5, 10:00-11:00 a.m. Burgin Baptist Church. Visitation--Thursday, December 5, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Jackson's Chapel United Methodist Church, 3010 Spout Springs Road (Hwy 82, (Estill County) Irvine, KY. Funeral Service Thursday, December 5, 3:00-4:00 pm. Jackson's Chapel United Methodist Church. Burial in the Jackson's chapel Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial gifts be sent to the "Friends of the Owsley county Public Library," P.O. Box 240, Booneville, KY 41314.