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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name = Cecil Alonzo Bickley<br>
| name=Cecil Alonzo Bickley<br>
(Texas businessman<br> and civic figure)
(Texas businessman<br> and civic figure)
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| birth_date =August 29, 1912
| birth_date =August 29, 1912
| birth_place =De Leon, Jones County<br>
| birth_place =De Leon, Jones County<br>
[[Texas]], USA
[[Texas]], USA
| death_date =February 14, 2004
| death_date =February 14, 2004 (aged 91)
| death_place =Denver City, Yoakum County<br>Texas
| death_place =Denver City, Yoakum County<br>[[Texas]]
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'''Cecil Alonzo Bickley''' (August 29, 1912 – February 14, 2004) was a [[business]]man and civic leader in his adopted town of Denver City, founded in 1936 in the last major oil strike on the West [[Texas]] plains. Denver City, named for a petroleum company, had a 2010 population of 4,479.
'''Cecil Alonzo Bickley''' (August 29, 1912 – February 14, 2004) was a [[business]]man and civic leader in his adopted town of Denver City, founded in 1936 in the last major oil strike on the West [[Texas]] plains. Denver City, named for a petroleum company, had a 2010 population of 4,479.
==Background==
Bickley was born in De Leon in Comanche County, Texas. His father, C. A., a [[Methodist]] pastor, did not use his full name of Columbus Alonzo Bickley (1879-1964). Cecil's mother was the former Irene McCarver (1884-1926). The parents are interred at Resthaven Memorial Park in Lubbock, Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29879956|title=Irene McCarver Bickley|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref> His paternal grandmother, the mother of C. A. Bickley, was born on July 4, 1877, and received the unusual first and middle names of "America Independence".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bickley&GSfn=America&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=48251753&df=all&|title=America Independence McNesse Bickley (1877-1933)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref>
Bickley was born in De Leon in Comanche County, Texas. His father, C. A., a [[Methodist]] pastor, did not use his full name of Columbus Alonzo Bickley (1879-1964). Cecil's mother was the former Irene McCarver (1884-1926). The parents are interred at Resthaven Memorial Park in Lubbock, Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29879956|title=Irene McCarver Bickley|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref> His paternal grandmother, the mother of C. A. Bickley, was born on July 4, 1877, and received the unusual first and middle names of "America Independence".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bickley&GSfn=America&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=48251753&df=all&|title=America Independence McNesse Bickley (1877-1933)|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref>
==Career==
Bickley graduated in 1933 from [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock and began employment with M Systems Food stores in East Texas. In the earlier oil boom town of Kilgore, Bickley met his wife, the former Peggy Patterson (1913-2007). They wed in 1939 in Abilene, Texas, and thereafter moved to Denver City. A native of Bernice in Union Parish, [[Louisiana]], Mrs. Bickley was at first reluctant to move to the then isolated West Texas community. She joined with her husband in the formation of Bickley's Grocery, a mainstay of Denver City from 1939 until their retirement in 1974, at which time Thriftway Foods became the only supermarket in the community.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38606965|title=Cecil Alonzo Bickley|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche Journal'' on Findagrave.com|date=February 15, 2004|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref>
Bickley graduated in 1933 from [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock and began employment with M Systems Food stores in East Texas. In the earlier oil boom town of Kilgore, Bickley met his wife, the former Peggy Patterson (1913-2007). They wed in 1939 in Abilene, Texas, and thereafter moved to Denver City. A native of Bernice in Union Parish, [[Louisiana]], Mrs. Bickley was at first reluctant to move to the then isolated West Texas community. She joined with her husband in the formation of Bickley's Grocery, a mainstay of Denver City from 1939 until their retirement in 1974, at which time Thriftway Foods became the only supermarket in the community.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38606965|title=Cecil Alonzo Bickley|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche Journal'' on Findagrave.com|date=February 15, 2004|accessdate=September 17, 2017}}</ref>