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Mr. Ficklin was born in Amissville on March 23, 1923 to the late James Strother and Vallie Davenport Ficklin and graduated from the Manassas Industrial High School in 1941.
Prior to his employment at Engraving and Printing, he was a toolmaker at the Washington Navy Yard for-17 years, with employment time interrupted for military service as a Gunners Mate in the US Navy in World War II. During his military service he was awarded the Pacific Theater Ribbon, the American Theater Ribbon and the Victory Medal.
In 1962 Ebony magazine featured Mr. Ficklin for being the first African American toolmaker at the Navy Yard and the first African American machinist at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which in 1961 was under investigation by the US Department of the Treasury for racially discriminatory employment practices.
In addition to his full-time employment as a machinist, Mr. Ficklin also worked parttime as a butler in The White House on formal state occasions for visiting dignitaries. In 1987 he was named "Man of the Year" by the St. John Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington where
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