Harvey "Champ" Wicker |
He was married to Blanch Batte, they were the parents of four children: Harvey Anderson, Sr., Anita Louisa, Donald Edwards, SR, and Debra Ann. He went into the Army at the age of seventeen. He was a boxer, he began in boxing career in Detroit, becoming the Golden Gloves "Champ" in the Bantam Weight Division for the the state of Michigan.
Harvey started the Wicker Water business. He me Angie Dickinson, President Kennedy and Nixon. In a newspaper interview Harvey talked about his vegetables on Wicker water. The water came from an artesian week in Inyo County, owned and worked by Harvey himself. Wicker spoke about most water we get from our taps, contain all kinds of substances. He proved a copy of a chemical analysis of Wicker water for eery bottle.
For years Wicker donated water to Pacoina Memorial Hospital. He serviced other recipients with Wicker Water. Some wrote letter about Wicker water stating that the drinking water cleared up problems such as Insomnia, indigestion, constipation and heartburn. Wicker mission was to get the drinking water in the home coolers and on the supermarket shelves. Emmett Culligan was working on a marketing program for the water. The sales from Wicker Water Company could have make Wicker a very wealthy man.
Source: The Funeral Program of Harvey A "Champ" Wicker & Harvey Wicker, the Grandson of Champ
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