Okfuskee, OK – Obit - Bennie F. Hill, abt 1908-1990

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Reprinted with permission from The Tulsa World


Bennie F. Hill

Former State Rep. Bennie F. Hill died April 30, 1990. He was 82.
Hill, a Waldron, Ark., native, first came to Oklahoma by covered wagon when he 
was 7.
He served as Okfuskee County sheriff in the 1930s and served four terms as a 
Democratic state representative in the 1950s.
Hill owned Bennie’s Meat Market and Hill’s IGA and retired as a butcher.
He was a member of Midway Church of Christ in Paden and former Okfuskee County 
School Board member.
Survivors include his wife, Alecia Hill, of the home; stepmother, Ora Hill, 
Okemah; daughters, Marylin Early, Okemah, and Mrs. Bill (Diann) Biles, Tulsa; 
stepbrothers, Kenneth Slusher, Tulsa, and Bennie Slusher, Konowa; five 
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.