Cook-Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hilliard, Esther Rowan June 23, 2004 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shirley McMillan Durden http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006039 May 28, 2013, 8:55 pm The Berrien Press - June 2004 Esther Rowan Hilliard, 97, of Adel died June 23, 2004 at Memorial Hospital of Adel. Born August 18, 1906 in Berrien County to the late Will and Maude Clanton Rowan, she was a homemaker, a member of Massee Baptist Church and the Pink Ladies Auxiliary. She was married to the late Milton Hilliard. Survivors include one son, Rev. Russell Hilliard of Ridge Crest, NC; two daughters, Mary Alice Simmons of Pembroke Pines, FL and Vida Hathcock of Valdosta; two half-brothers, Billy Rowan of Fitzgerald and Joe Rowan of Nashville; 21 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren, seven great-great- grandchildren. Funeral services were held June 27 at 2 p.m. at Massee Baptist Church with the Revs. Larry Harris and Terry Reagin officiating. The church choir sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Amazing Grace." Interment was in Sparks Cemetery. Pallbearers were Jesse Henderson, Jerry Joiner, Curtis Hamilton, Lloyd Tribble, Tony Harrison, Don Carnine, Jack Bryan, Jody Futch, Jonathan Bryan, Jim Rader. Boone-Lipsey Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/cook/obits/h/hilliard3151nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb