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Staples-Hicks, Vera Sunrise: Tuesday, November 28, 1922. Sunset: Thursday, February 9, 2017. Memorial Service Sunday, February 19, 2017, 2:30 p.m., Goshen Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church, 8221 South State St., Chicago, IL 60619. Vera Staples-Hicks was born in Drew, Mississippi. She was the eldest of eight children born to the late Bige and Marie Drake-Staples. Vera spent most of her early years in Little Rock, Arkansas, Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and later in Memphis, Tennessee. Vera had a strong desire to become a certified beautician, which inspired her to leave Memphis, in the early forties, and migrate to Chicago, Illinois. After completing her certification, she worked for many years as a beautician on the southside of Chicago. In the summer of 1984, Vera attended a crusade, conducted by Evangelist Oscar Lane, after which, she rededicated her life by becoming a baptized member into the Goshen Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church in Chicago, Illinois. While there, she severed as an usher for several years. Vera was preceded in death by her son, Larry Robinzine; her husbands, Lee Robinzine and Thomas Hicks; her father; her mother; three sisters and three brothers. She leaves to cherish her memory: a son, Pastor Gregg Robinzine; daughter-in-law, Victoria (Madden) Robinzine; two granddaughters, Meyassar and Aisha Robinzine; one sister, Eunice Murray (Sammie) of Dolton, Illinois, and a host of other relatives and friends.
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