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Roy Hicks

Roy Hicks
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Short Name: Roy Hicks
Full Name: Hicks, Roy, 1943-
Birth Year: 1943
Death Year: 1994

Wikipedia Biography

Roy Hicks Jr. was a pastor of Eugene Faith Center and important part of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel during the 1970s through the 1990s. He also wrote several hymns including Praise the Name of Jesus inspired by Psalm 18. He died when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Jackson County, Oregon on Thursday, February 10, 1994, during a solo flight return from the Los Angeles area where he served with the Foursquare International Church.

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