Love Co., OK. - Obit for Blanche Ola Hill

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                       Obit for Blanche Ola Hill

Services for Blanche Ola Hill, 91, were Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in the Shady
Dale Baptist Church. Officiating were Rev. Chief Lawson and Rev. Mike Castanos.

Mrs. Hill was born September 29, 1907, at Mt. Vernon, Texas, and died October
18, 1998, in Mercy Health Love County, Marietta. She was the daughter of
William Harry and Delilah Lane Brown.

A resident of Love County for 68 years. Mrs. Hill was a homemaker and retired
as a cook from the Marietta Livestock Auction. She was a member of the Shady
Dale Baptist Church and a charter member of the Shady Dale Extension Club. She
and J.G. "Dink" Hill were married May 4, 1929, in Mt. Vernon.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Billy C. and Jerry Lynn Hill of
Marietta; three sisters, Jewel Foster of Marietta, and May Shurbet and Cora
Cooper of Mt. Pleasant, Texas; 10 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and
three great-great-grandsons.

Mrs. Hill was preceded in death by her husband on April 30, 1981; a son, Edwin
Hill on April 16, 1979; and a daughter, Wanda Dixon on June 24, 1995.

Arrangements were under the direction of Kennedy Funeral Home with interment in
Lakeview Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were grandsons, Brad Dixon, Daryl
Dixon, Bobby Joe Hill, Wayne Mays, Bill Siller, Mike Hill, Mark Hill, Scott
Birdsall, Bobby Lee Olive and Dan Brush. Honorary bearers were former and
present members of the Shady Dale Baptist Church.

Reprinted from the Marietta Monitor, Love County, October 23, 1998.