Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
5:48 pm Sunday, May 1, 2011

Ricky Ethan Knox

Ricky Ethan Knox

April 27, 2011

Ricky Ethan Knox, 10, of Phil Campbell, passed away Wednesday, April 27, 2011.
Visitation will be Monday, May 2 from 6 to 8 pm at Akins Funeral Home. The 10 a.m. funeral service will be held Tuesday, May 3, in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Sammy Taylor officiating.
He was preceded in death by his father, Ricky Knox; grandparents, Arthur and Margarite Ashton; great grandfather, Jimmy Gibson.
He leaves to cherish his memory, parents, Michael and Evelyn Ashton, Sr.; aunts and uncles, Brandy Bullock and husband, Mark, Michael Ashton, Jr., and wife, Alicia, Timothy Ashton and wife, Sonya, and Jimmy Knox; cousins, Kelsey, Megan, Seth, Baylie, Kallie, Zoie, Abby, Colton and Brooklyn; great grandmother, Thelma Gibson; birth mother, Argena King; siblings, Melia, Logan andd Junior; grandparents, Ray and Deana King; numerous other great aunts and uncles and cousins.
He was a member of Mt. View Baptist Church and attended Phil Campbell Elementary.
You never saw Ethan without a smile; he loved to play sports, especially, baseball. He loved to take his BB gun and hunt squirrels and birds with his cousin Seth; he loved to ride 4 wheelers and dirt bikes. He loved to draw. He was our daredevil.

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