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Billy Dean Higgins 1946-2025

April 19, 2025

Billy Dean Higgins, 78, of Ironton, OH died Thursday, April 17, 2025 at his home. He was born April 24, 1946 in Ashland, Ky a son of the late John A. and Drexel Franklin Higgins. He was a Unites States Army veteran. He spent his working career after the service as an Locomotive Engineer for C&O and then CSX Railroad. Golfing and the UK Wildcats was his two biggest hobbies throughout his life which he enjoyed immensely. He was a member of Calvary Apostolic Lighthouse Church. Billy is preceded in death in addition to his parents by his wife Sue Ann O'Neill Higgins, a brother Lewis Benjamin "Benny" Higgins, and a sister Barbara Ann "Bobby" Higgins . He is survived by two sons John (Amber) Higgins of Ironton,OH and Mike (Barb) Webb of Newark, OH, a daughter Cindy (Richie) Haddad of Canal Fulton, OH, five grandchildren Sean Webb, Anarose Webb, Skyelar Bryant, Caleb Lynch, and Vaeda Sueannilyn Higgins, a great-grandchild Taeauna Knight, a sister-in-law Ann Higgins Webb of Flatwoods, Ky, and two nephews Marty (Susan) Higgins of Deering, OH and Todd (Jennifer) Higgins of Gray, Ky. Services for Billy will be conducted Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 11 AM at the Lazear Funeral Home Chapel in Ashland by Pastors Venny Azzolini and Gene Easterling with burial to follow in Bellefonte Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday, April 21, 2025 from 6 to 9 PM. Lazear Funeral Home is both honored and privileged to have been entrusted with the care of Mr.Higgins.

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