Ricky SealsFuneral arrangements have been announced for Bledsoe County Sheriff’s Office investigator Ricky Seals.
The family will receive friends from 12 to 9 p.m. CDT today and all day on Saturday. A celebration of life is planned Sunday at 2 p.m. CDT at Cold Springs Baptist Church, according to his obituary at Pikeville Funeral Home.
Seals was found dead early Tuesday lying by his Jeep on Slaughterhouse Road, north of Pikeville less than a mile from his home. TBI investigators combed the scene where his body was found for most of the day on Tuesday. TBI officials said Wednesday that an autopsy showed that Seals did not die of any physical injuries. Other test results are still pending.
Seals, 55, had been a public servant in Bledsoe County for 37 years, serving with Pikeville’s police and fire departments and the Bledsoe County Sheriff’s Office. His sudden death this week left members of the community and area law enforcement in shock.