Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....(Powell) Hill Kimbriel, Cecil Mae  January 11 2005
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The Bakersfield Californian
Cecil Mae Hill Kimbriel
Nov. 23, 1911 Jan. 11, 2005

Services will be held at Greenlawn Southwest Memorial Chapel, 2739 Panama Ln., 
Friday, January 14, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. Visitation will be held today, January 
13 from 12:00 9:00 p.m. After battling heart disease our spry, feisty, 
wonderful Cecil Mae Hill Kimbriel reluctantly passed away. Elder Harold Foster 
will officiate. 

Cecil was born in Jimtown, Oklahoma on November 23, 1911 to Jess and Lula 
Powell. She was the second oldest of seven. Living through the depression, 
being caught up in the Dust Bowl, trekking across the Midwest with her newly 
wed husband, Otis Hill, in their 1929 Whippit (yes, with a mattress tied to 
the top) finally ending up in Tulare, California in 1934.

Otis, Cecil and their two sons moved to Bakersfield in 1944 to run a trucking 
company, a motel and a farm on Brimhall and Calloway. Only married 18 short 
years Otis passed away leaving Cecil to raise the boys and to run the farm by 
herself. In 1961, twelve years after Otis passed away, Cecil married her best 
friend, Ray Kimbriel. Ray passed away four years later, leaving Cecil to 
continue running the farm as well as managing the cafeteria at Bank of 
America. Staying with Bank of America for 26 years at the young age of 65 she 
decided to retire to run the farm. She sold the property in 1978 after 34 
years of farming. She continued working at her son and daughter-in-laws 
business until she decided to retire at the age of 91.

She is survived by her two sisters, Nelly Williams and Ethel and her husband, 
Herman Anderson; her two sons, Dr. Wayne Hill and wife, Annette and Donald 
Hill and wife, Lynne; five grandchildren and their spouses, Gary and Kathleen 
Hill, Elie and Lori Feghali, Darrin and Ande Hill, Craig and Melissa Hill and 
Tracey and Jason Burke; and 15 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death 
by her husbands, Otis and Ray; grandson, Kevin Hill; her parents; and four 
brothers.

The family would like to give a very special thank you, thank you for the 
wonderful staff at the Bakersfield Heart Hospital. Their friendship and 
special care meant a lot to Cecil.

Mom/Grandma Cecil you sure will be missed. We Love You!!


Greenlawn Southwest Mortuary

Funeral Directors 


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