FLORENCE, SC (WBTW) – Family, friends, and colleagues came together for a home-going ceremony to honor the life of a South Florence High School basketball and volleyball coach killed earlier this week.
Aside from coaching, Hickson served as director at the Lake City Fitness Center in Lake City and those closest to her wanted to make sure that part of her life lives on.
“She was there every day, five days a week and then she would leave from there and then come out here to South Florence and work with the kids there, so she was very connected to the whole entire Pee Dee community,” said Hickson’s co-worker Earnest Graham.
“She would always push me and make do things I thought I couldn’t do. She wasn’t only my boss, but like my best friend,” Marlon Brown said.
Hickson was a best friend that many others in the Pee Dee admired having around too.
“The members loved her literally to death. I mean she was a person that inspired everybody to be the best person they could be,” mentioned Brown.
“The thing I remember most about her is that every little slogan and every text that she sent she would always end it with, it’s all good, it’s all God,” mentioned Graham.
The Lake City Fitness Center is working to form the Wanetta Michelle Hickson Studio in her honor and a college savings plan for her 8 year-old daughter Aniyah.
The South Florence Class of 1996 set up a memorial fund for Hickson as well. You may go to https://www.gofundme.com/MichelleHickson and make your donations.