Bobby Gene Hicks Sr. was born June 22, 1948, to Elmore Franklin and Norene (Petty) Hicks in Clinton, Okla. He passed Jan. 8, 2025, at the Clinton Veterans Center. He was on Clinton’s very first football state cham-pion-ship winning team. He attended Cameron University in Lawton for one year, while he was there he attended OCS and came out as a 2nd Lt. He did basic training at Ft. Polk, La., and al…