Obituary

Wife of Herbert Spencer Hilburn. Daughter of Benjamin T. and Eugenia Strong Riddle. Married 24 Dec. 1955. Daughters of American Revolution member; Charter member of the Altrusa Club; Member of Plainview Confederation of Women's Club.

OBIT: Abilene Reporter News, 24 July 1964

Wife of Editor, Ex-Ciscoan, Dies

Plainview - Mrs. H. S. Hilburn, wife of the Plainview Herald editor and former Cisco resident, died at Plainview Hospital and Clinic about 12:15 p.m. Thursday. She had been ill several months.

Funeral will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. in First Methodist Church here with the Dr. Marshall Rhue, pastor, assisted by Dr. Howard Crawford of Lubbock, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Cemetery under direction of Limons Funeral Home.

Mrs. Hilburn, 70, was born in Henrietta on May 17, 1894. She moved from Cisco to Plainview in the early 1930s. Several years later she moved to Cisco, studied interior decorating in New York City and was employed in Lubbock before retiring here.

She married Herbert S. Hilburn Dec. 24, 1955, was active in the Plainview Confederation of Women's Clubs, was past president of the Athenaeum Club, charter member of First Methodist Church.

Survivors are her husband; one sister, Mrs. J. Roy Reed of Cisco; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Ada Crager of Canyon; two stepsons, Herbert S. Hilburn Jr. of Scheneclady, N.Y. and Robert R. Hilburn of Plainview; and two nephews.