Obituary

Funeral services for Esther Graham Hill, 82, of Plainview will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Lemons Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Jim Green of Lubbock and the Rev. Jay Simpson, pastor of First Baptist Church of Kress, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park by Lemons Funeral Home. Mrs. Hill died at 5:46 p.m. Thursday, March 14, 2002, in Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. She was born April 18, 1919, in the Irick Community where she grew up and graduated from Irick High School. She moved to Plainview in the early 1940s. She married Adkins Phillips on July 12, 1942, in Cone. He died in 1953. She married William C. Hill on April 23, 1955. He died in 1979. She moved to Odessa in 1996. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Church. Survivors include two daughters, Gloria Collis of Midland and Sherrie Hill of Houston; one stepson, Jimmy Hill of Plainview; one brother, Warren Graham of Lockney; one sister, Naomi Williamson of Pampa; three grandsons; nine great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild. Memorials may be made to a favorite charity or Bethel Baptist Church Building Fund, 1500 Independence, Plainview, TX 79072.
Plainview Daily Herald - March 15, 2002