Lutie Perkins Hicks, age 76, of Monticello, Kentucky passed from this life on Sunday, October 28, 2018 at Golden Years Nursing Home.

She was born on May 8, 1942 in Wayne County, the daughter of the late Nim and Ethel Jones Perkins.

Lutie loved the Lord first and foremost. She also loved her family and friends. She always had a smile on her face and greeted everyone with a smile. She also loved singing praises to the Lord and reading her Bible, doing crossword puzzles and playing BINGO. Lutie was a homemaker and a member of Monticello Baptist Tabernacle Church and will be missed by all who knew and loved her. We know that our loss is truly Heaven’s eternal gain.

She was preceded in death by her parents Nim and Ethel Perkins; her husband Lincoln Hicks; two sons Timothy Wayne Hicks and Steven James Hicks; four sisters Geneva Perkins, Marie Perkins, Vangie Bowlin and Martha Reynolds; three brothers Andy Perkins, Gilbert Perkins  and Smilie Perkins; and one great-granddaughter MaKenna Reese Watson.

She is survived by her daughter Vickie Watson and one son Kenneth (and Kyla) Hicks; three grandchildren Clint Watson, Renee Watson and D.J. Watson; three great-grandchildren Madison Dabbelt, Brian Dabbelt and Lexi West; one sister Bonnie Hicks and one brother Floyd Perkins. She is also survived by a host of family and friends that also mourn her passing.

Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at the Monticello Baptist Tabernacle Church on 2nd Street.

Funeral Service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 1, 2018 at the Monticello Baptist Tabernacle Church on 2nd Street with Bro. Roy Gregory officiating.

Burial will be in the Gap Creek Cemetery.

Southern Oaks Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements for Lutie Perkins Hicks.