Jim Curtis Tickle

Reidsville – Jim Curtis Tickle, 90, of 471 Huffines Mill Road, passed away Sunday May 29 at Blumenthal’s Nursing and Rehab Center in Greensboro. Funeral services will be held 2:00 PM Thursday, June 2, 2016 at Maple Lawn Baptist Church at 5401 NC 65 in Reidsville with Rev. John Byerly, Rev. Rick Church and Rev. Daniel Church officiating. The burial will follow in Evergreen Memory Gardens with Military Honors. Mr. Tickle was a native of Rockingham County and was the son of the late, Nathan and Erna Bennet Tickle. He was simply called Curtis by those who knew and loved him. Curtis loved to sing, play guitar, watch Nascar, but he was most happy when casting his rod in a local pond to fish. Curtis was a WWII Veteran in US Army, Charter Member, Former Deacon, Sunday School Teacher, Superintendant and Choir member of Maple Lawn Baptist Church in the Bethany Community. He served as the Assistant Fire Chief for 18 years at The Bethany Volunteer Fire Dept. Curtis was also featured on an episode of Discovery Health's Mystery Diagnosis to help raise awareness of his daughter Karen's rare disease Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome. Along with his parents, he was also preceded in death by his brothers, Robert Harris Tickle Willie Ennie Herman Tickle and Elmer Tickle; his sister, Erna Inez Dimont; step grandchild, Mary Dawn Paschal. Curtis is survived by his wife Margaret Moore Tickle of the home; his son, Alan Curtis Tickle of McLeansville, NC; his daughters, Susan Denise Gauldin, of Eden, NC, Joyce Tickle Church of Summerfield, NC and Karen Tickle Tillman of Greensboro, NC; his grandchildren, Darleene Norman of Madison, NC, Gary Wayne Gauldin of Eden, NC, Katie Lackey of Reidsville, NC, Daniel Church of Brown Summit, NC and Holly Snyder of Greensboro NC; step grandchildren: Michael Shannon Tillman of Patuxent, MD Sonya Darlene Moore, and Donna Marie McGeehee of Reidsville, NC; 4 great grand children; 8 step grandchildren; 2 great-great grandchildren; 3 great-great step grandchildren. The family will receive family and friends on Wednesday June 1, 2016 from 6-8:00 pm at Maple Lawn Baptist Church; other times at the home. In lieu of flowers the family would like donations to go to The Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome Network in honor of his daughter Karen who has this rare disease. Make checks payable to The HPS Network, One South Rd. Oyster Bay, NY, 11771 and write Jim Tickle in memo line. Condolences may be made to the family at www.wilkersonfuneral.com