Lion Rose Edgar • 1st Vice District Governor for the Lions Year 2011-2012

Lion Rose was born in Asheville, NC. She and her husband, PDG Jim Edgar live in Candler, NC where they are active in their church and community. She is an active member in the Sand Hill Lions Club.

Rose has served as Zone Chair, Region Chair, Cabinet Secretary/Treasurer, and is past President of the WNC Lions, Inc. where she served as the first female president of that board. She is a Melvin Jones Fellow, Jack Stickley Fellow, and a William L. Woolard Partner-In-Service. She has graduated from the 2010 Southeastern Lions Leadership Institute. Lion Rose’s 23 years of experience in Lionism is outstanding and shows commitment to her Club and District.

Lion Rose is a REALTOR and specializes in property management. She is also a member of Asheville Board of Realtors, and has been employed with Betty B. Williams & Associates since 1999. Rose enjoys spending time with her family, as well as reading, sewing and crochet. She and Lion Jim have 4 children and 8 grandchildren who keep them young at heart.

Along with leadership skills she also has a great compassion for those in need. Lion Rose works to live up to one of Helen Keller's mottos, “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another”.

Contact Information: 109 Hidden Forest Estates, Candler, NC 28715 • 828-768-4568 • Email Lion Rose

Lion Will Hicks • 2nd Vice District Governor for the Lions Year 2011-2012


Lion Will Hicks joined the Etowah Lions Club in 2004 by invitation of Lion DC Cantrell. He has served as President of the Etowah Lions Club, Tail Twister, as district zone Chair for Zone Eight—2009-2011 and District Membership Chair, 2010-2011. He is a two year director on the Etowah Lion’s Club Board of Directors. Lion Will is retired from the United States Air Force. He served over 22 years and is a Vietnam Veteran and a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). He has a degree in Aircraft Maintenance Technology and is a graduate of Pitt Technical Institute, Greenville, NC, where he studied automotive mechanics. He holds an Extra Class Amateur Radio Operators license issued by the FCC. He is a member of the Academy of Model Aeronautics and serves as a leader member and contest director. Lion Will is the President of two Radio Control Aircraft Clubs; Asheville and Etowah NC. He is a member of the Henderson County Amateur Radio Club (BRARC). He is a 2009 graduate of the Senior Lions Leadership Institute and the Southeast Lions Leadership Institute, 2010. He owned and operated Will’s CB Shop from 1989-2006. He is currently employed with the Etowah Lions Services, Inc.; helping to further the Etowah Lions Club service endeavors. Lion Will is a Jack Stickley Fellow and has been awarded the President Excellence Award. He is a Certified Guiding Lion and a recipient of the Membership Key Award. He met and married Lion Debbie Hicks in Michigan. They have been married 25 years. They have four children and five grandchildren.

Contact Information: 25 Blessing Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739 • 828-458-5903 • Email Lion Will

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