Pickett, who sang in Baptist church choirs, was born on March 18, 1941, in Prattville, Alabama. He termed his mother, the fourth of his family’s 11 children “stating to historian Gerri Hirshey: “I get terrified of her now.
She’s the worst lady in my book. She used to beat me with anything, even skillets and stove wood; once, I fled and sobbed for a week. I and my small dog stayed in the woods.” In 1955, Pickett finally moved out to Detroit to live with his father.
What was Wilson Pickett’s cause of death?
Pickett passed away on January 19, 2006, two months before turning 65. He had spent a lot of time in the hospital due to health issues that had plagued him for the previous year of his life. He had a heart attack and passed away at a Reston, Virginia, hospital.
Pickett was a resident of Ashburn, Virginia, at the time of his demise. At Louisville, Kentucky’s Evergreen Cemetery, he was interred in a mausoleum. Pickett stayed in Louisville for a long time.
Little Richard, a close friend of Wilson Pickett’s, gave the eulogy during his funeral, which was officiated by Pastor Steve Owens of Decatur, Georgia.
