Quentin Kicklighter

Quentin Hampton Kicklighter, resident of Brevard, NC, passed away gently during the night of Oct. 20, 2010. Mr. Kicklighter had moved there six years ago, to be close to his son and family, Sammy, Wendy and Samuel Kicklighter of Pisgah Forest, N.C , who had moved there 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 the rural town of Glennville in South Georgia, to the late parents of Samuel Jasper Kicklighter and Eva Belle Stanfield Kicklighter, both of Glennville. He grew up in the Kicklighter house on Caswell St. along with his sister Vondelle Kicklighter. He 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 fan 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 Truman dropped the bomb on Japan. 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 fulltime farmer himself in South Georgia, until his retirement, which was in Savannah, Ga. till he moved to North Carolina.

Mr. Kicklighter was a Mason, in the Philadelphia Lodge in Glennville. He was a former member of the Glennville VFW. He was a member of the UGA alumni foundation. He also was a former member of the First Baptist Church of Glennville and served as deacon there. Later Mr. Kicklighter opened a business none as the Edgewood Trailer Park on north 301.

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 of St. Simons Island Ga. 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, Jan Miles Dempsey, of Auburn Alabama and family, two nephews John David Miles of Statesboro and family, and Lindsey Paul Miles of Princeton, NJ. And numerous cousins all in south GA. Mr. Kicklighter also has six great grand children, all of whom live in Georgia.

Funeral services will be in Glennville, Ga. Thursday Oct. 28th, 2010 with the pastor Danny Hedgepath of First Baptist Church, Brevard, NC presiding and pastor Michael Howard of the First Baptist church of Glennville assisting. Burial will be in the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery, at 11:00 am with military honors and a memorial service will follow at 12:00 in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Glennville, Ga. The family will hold a visitation prior and after the memorial at First Baptist Church. All remembrances should go to the benevolence committee of First Baptist Church. Brannen-Kennedy Funeral Home of Glennville, Ga is in charge. and Moody Connolly of Brevard, NC.