Ellen Mae Miller Hickman, 87 years old, of Loveland, CO, formerly of Good Intent, died Sunday, August 11, 2024.

Mass of Christian burial to celebrate Ellen's life will be Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Church. A rosary will be on Tuesday evening, Aug. 20th beginning at 6:00 p.m. with visitation to follow until 7:30 p.m. She will be laid to rest at Mt. Calvary Cemetery and a lunch will be served following the burial at St. Joseph Church. Memorials are suggested to Mt. Calvary Cemetery Endowment, St. Benedict Parish or Dementia Research. Funeral care by the Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home.

Ellen was born on May 4, 1937, in Wathena, KS, the daughter of Charles S. Miller and Edna Mae Fleek Miller. She graduated from St. Louis Grade School in Good Intent and from Mount St. Scholastica Academy in 1955. She worked at F.W. Woolworth and Saunders Manufacturing Company before becoming a homemaker until moving to Boulder, CO, in 1969. She went to work for Ball Aerospace in 1974, working in quality control as an inspector, until her retirement in 1993. She was a member of St. Benedict Parish and the church altar society until she relocated to Loveland, CO, in November of 2018.

She and Jack Hickman were married on February 4, 1956, at St. Louis Church. Jack preceded her in death on July 7, 2016. She is also preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, Richard (Dorothy) Miller, Burnace Miller, Melvin Miller; two sisters, Elaine “Sug” (Max) McGuire, Eunice “Dolly” Fesperman; brothers-in-law, HB Keithline, Gene Geisendorf, Kenneth (Maxine) Banks; and sister-in-law, Christina Ganter-Larkin.

Ellen is survived by a son, John Lee Hickman, Broomfield, CO; four daughters, Pamela Kay (Dale) Bowman, Holton, KS, Vickie Ann (William) Priest, Goodyear, AZ, Lisa Rae (Dwight) Hickman-Lott, Loveland, CO, May Kim Ameur, Worland, WY; fifteen grandchildren, Kerry Bowman, Erin Merchen, Laura (Drew) Lanter, Christopher (Jamie) Priest, Tracy Bowman, Cassidy (Christie) Phan, Christina (Nick) Barr, Scarlett Hickman, Cody Phan, Gabrielle Simoni, David Lott, Joseph Hickman, Olivia (Michael) Diaz, William Bowman, Lindsey Bowman; nine great grandchildren, Chase, Kolt, Cooper, Carter, Cadence, Sofia, Vivienne, Ella, Rowan and a baby girl on the way; two sisters, Carol Keithline, Kansas City, KS, Mary Lynn Geisendorf, Atchison, KS; brother, Ronald (Anita) Miller, Atchison, KS; two sisters-in-law, Linda Miller, Lancaster, KS, Ruth Miller, Atchison, KS; and a brother-in-law, Wayne Fesperman, Dove Canyon, CA.