David Gerald Hicks of Abbeville passed away on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. He was 89.
There is no memorial service planned at this time. Holman-Abbeville Mortuary and Cremations is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Hicks was born in Moody Hospital in Dothan, Alabama on June 17, 1937. He was reared in Graceville, Florida until attending Auburn University, graduating in Civil Engineering in 1961, before accepting a position with the Corps of Engineers in the Mobile District. While serving in Mobile, Mr. Hicks invented and patented a Grout Expansion Pressure Meter and Method. Mr. Hicks then transferred to the Economic Development Administration in Huntsville, Alabama. Afterwards, he purchased the Eufaula Engineering and Surveying Company on April Fool’s Day in 1971 later becoming David Hicks and Associates Inc. in Abbeville, Alabama.
Accomplishments include Kiwanis Club President and Lieutenant Governor, member of the State Board TriRivers Waterway Development Association, and the National Small Water Tank Design Award. In association with Dr. Wolverton of the Stennis Mississippi Test Laboratory, he was instrumental in designing for Houston County a wastewater treatment facility using aquatic plants. Mr. Hicks designed the infrastructure for Historic Westville Village in Columbus, Georgia. He also designed rural water systems in the following counties in Alabama: Covington, Coffee, Barbour, Russell, Crenshaw, Butler, and Dale and in Quitman County, Georgia. In Florida, he was a primary engineer for rural water systems in Escambia, Bay, and Jackson Counties.
He was preceded in death by his parents Nellie Ruth Geiger Hicks and Thomas Green Hicks; daughter, Lillian Celeste (Stormy) Hicks; sister Patsy Joyce Hicks & brother in-law Phillip Green; sister-in-law, Gertraud Hicks.
Surviving relatives are wife, Eva Lee Carter Hicks, daughters, Misty Hicks (Florida) and DaVee Tessmann (Troy, Alabama), son, Joseph Hicks (Laura) (Kentucky), granddaughters, Brandy Langley (BJ), Lindsey Hatfield, Kayla Dinello, Molly Hicks, Evann Tessmann and Carter Grace Tessmann, and grandson Jordan Christopher Miller (Cortney) and great-grandsons Jacob Hayes and Matthew Hammack; a brother-in-law, Jim Carter (Peggy).
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Safe Haven Animal Rescue Kennels (S.H.A.R.K), P.O. Box 126, Abbeville, AL 36310 or to Abbeville Fire and Rescue, 201 Bradley Street, Abbeville, AL 36310.
HOLMAN ABBEVILLE MORTUARY & CREMATIONS IS IN CHARGE OF FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS. Phone 334-585-5261.You may sign a guest register at www.holmanmortuaries.com. This firm does not own a crematory.
