I n the early 1970's, at the age of thirty-five, Marvin Hicks made a life-changing decision. His wife took over the daily operation of their florist business, when he moved to Louisville, Kentucky to attend the Kentucky School of Mortuary Science, and to complete his personal goal of becoming a funeral director and embalmer.

Marvin S. Hicks Funeral Home, Inc. became a reality in 1972, when Marvin Hicks and his wife, Mary Ann Smith Hicks, opened their home to the public. Situated on North Highway 90 in Wayne County, just on the outskirts of the city of Monticello, the funeral home became an entity in a large, two-story antebellum-type Southern Home.