June 16, 1993

Comedian Bill Hicks was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Hicks performed his final show on January 6, 1994, before a tiny crowd at Caroline’s in New York. He then moved back to his parents’ house in Little Rock (Pulaski County) to spend his final days surrounded by family. Hicks died in Little Rock on February 26, 1994. He was buried in the family plot in Leakesville, Mississippi. At the memorial service, Hicks’s brother, Steve, read a piece Hicks had written and requested be read: “I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love, and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”