Bonnie (Long) Hicky

Bonnie Rae Long Hicky, age 69, passed away on November 7th, 2024, after a 6-year battle with stage four lung cancer.  She was born on June 18, 1955, in Beloit, Wisconsin, to Marilyn and Ray Long the second of six girls.  Bonnie was raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and always considered the Garden of the Gods her happy place.

After graduating from Roy J. Wasson High in 1973, she attended Whittier College in Whittier, California, earning a B.A. in Human Development in 1977.  However, the skies were calling and she became an American Airlines flight attendant in 1978 and continued to fly for 23 years until her retirement in 2001. 

On November 15, 1980, Bonnie married John Stratton Hicky and became a naval officer’s wife, balancing her career with moving from coast to coast for the next 20 years.  In 2001 they moved to Madison, Georgia, to care for Stratton’s parents, Hattie Mina (Reid) and Dan McHenry Hicky, and to raise their two daughters, Morgan and Dana.

Bonnie always felt she was put on the earth to touch people and she continued to do that during her retirement.  She taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School at Madison First United Methodist Church for 10 years, sewed costumes for local theater productions, volunteered at her daughters’ schools, and for 12 years served as board chair for the Morgan County Library and the Azalea Regional Library System.

Now heaven is blessed with her presence.  She was preceded in death by her parents, Marilyn and Ray Long, and her daughter, Carson Page Hicky.  She is survived by her husband, John Stratton Hicky, her daughters, Morgan Jester (husband Gregory) and Dana Dorsch (husband Paul), her sisters Susie Nickell, Julie Waite, Brenda Collins, Teresa Cole and Diane Dunaway, and many cherished family members and friends.

There will be a celebration of Bonnie’s life on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 11:00 in the Madison First United Methodist Church.  In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made in Bonnie’s memory to the Morgan County Library, 1131 East Avenue, Madison, Georgia, 30650 or the Madison First United Methodist Church, 296 S. Main St., Madison, Georgia 30650.

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