Mrs. Marietta (Betty) Mayes Hicklin entered into rest on Sunday, February 2, 2014 at UPAC Augusta Hills Nursing Facility. A retired educator for the Irvington New Jersey Board of Education, she was born and raised in Newark,and attended various schools there, ultimately graduating from Art High School. She received a four year scholarship to the Newark School of Fine Industrial Arts and after four years received a Fine Arts Certification. She taught at the Newark School of Fine Arts for 26 years. While teaching on Saturdays, she worked full time at AnthroCast Inc., where she made reproductions of Pre-Historic skulls and bones. Later, she attended Jersey City State College (now known as New Jersey State University) full time and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1972. She started teaching in Irvington in January 1972. She received her Master of Arts Degree in 1976 and continued teaching in the school system. Mrs. Mayes-Hicklin retired from the Irvington School Board in 2002 and moved to Georgia in 2005. Known as the consummate professional artist, she travelled abroad in 1977. While in Ghana and Nigeria, she earned college credits from attending the University of Ghana, the University of Ibodan and the University of Ifa, both which are located in Nigeria. In 1998 she received a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. She also received credits from Kean College of NJ for going back on an educational trip to West Africa. Before her second trip to Africa, she married her husband James in 1988 and settled in Piscataway, NJ. Upon moving to Augusta, GA, she attended Augusta State University and was selected as an adjunct candidate professor. However, because of illness, she never started. She became a member of Restoration Christian Fellowship of Augusta in 2005. Marietta was a boisterous person, stern art teacher and good artist. She was known for being kind hearted, a caretaker, money saver and a giving person. She enjoyed collecting china, decorating her dinning table and buying clothes and shoes. She was the fourth born of five children and was preceded in death by her Mother and Father, Maggie and Charlie Mayes and Daughter Kyonna Shaw. She leaves to mourn, her husband, James Hicklin, Hephzibah, GA, a Son Gerald Montgomery, three Brothers, Bob Mayes of Hephzibah, GA, Charlie Mayes Jr. of Linden, NJ, Welborn Lamar Salaam of Washington State; a Sister Johnnie Watson also of Cranford, NJ and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 2:00PM at Restoration Christian Ministries with the Reverend Dr. Michael Mitchell officiating. A second Service will be held in Newark, New Jersey the following week with interment to follow in Rosedale Cemetery in Montclair, NJ.