CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Ruth Galloway Hilt, 8 Jan 2005
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Mrs. Ruth Galloway Hilt, 91, of Elizabethton, died Saturday, January 8, 2005, 
at Asbury Center, Johnson City.

Mrs. Hilt was a native of Wise County, Va., and a daughter of the late John 
Franklin and Elsie Blevins Galloway. In addition to her parents, she was 
preceded in death by her husband, William Andrew Hilt, in 1966, a son, William 
Andrew Hilt Jr., a granddaughter, Karen Ann Waligroski, two sisters, Mabel 
Moore and Jessie Patterson, and three brothers, Eugene, Harry and Vernon 
Galloway.

Mrs. Hilt had lived in Elizabethton for over 70 years. She owned and operated 
Ruth Hilt Draperies for several years and was a member of First United 
Methodist Church of Elizabethton where she was a Sunday School Teacher for a 
number of years.

Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Patricia H. and Edward 
Waligroski, Beech Mountain, N.C.; two grandsons, James Edward Waligroski and 
his wife Janice, Vineland, N.J., and Gregg Andrew Waligroski, Boulder, Colo.; 
three nieces, Carolyn Norris and her husband Gerald, Anne Johnson and her 
husband Eddie, all of Elizabethton, and Linda Galloway, Gardiner, Maine; a 
great-nephew, Michael Owens and his wife Lora and their son, Heath; a sister-
in-law, Maxine Galloway, San Diego, Calif.; and a special friend, Dorothy 
Wood.

Funeral services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Monday, January 10, at Memorial 
Funeral Chapel with Rev. Buford Hankins officiating. Entombment services will 
be conducted at 9 a.m. Tuesday, January 11, in the Mausoleum of Hope at Happy 
Valley Memorial Park. Honorary pallbearers will be Gerald Norris, Eddie 
Johnson, Michael Owens and Joe Wood. The family would like to express a 
special "Thank You" to the staff of the Asbury Center, Johnson City. The 
family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. To 
those who prefer, memorials may be made in memory of Mrs. Hilt to the East 
Tennessee Branch of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Phone 888-833-
2873. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 8:30 a.m. 
Tuesday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the Hilt family may be e-mailed 
to mfc@chartertn.net.Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge.

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