Joe Hickey
Joe Hickey (7 March 1929 – 11 November 2021) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family. The son of Daniel James Hickey (1890-1954), and Josephine Marie Hickey (1894-1988), née Wilson, Joseph Hickey was born on 7 March 1929. He married Audrey May Hoare in 1955. Joe Hickey’s granddaughter is Australian Olympian Madeline Heiner; and, according to Joe, she acquired all her running ability from him. Football. Ftitzroy (VFL). Hickey was a key forward, recruited to Fitzroy from Shepparton. He made 13 appearances for Fitzroy in 1952, including  their preliminary final loss to Collingwood. In 1953 he was Fitzroy's leading goal-kicker with 40 goals, including 8 eight goals against North Melbourne at Brunswick Street Oval. After Fitzroy. Following the death of his father in a road accident on 25 February 1954, Hickey decided to work at his Invergordon farm full-time.