Funeral services will be held at 1:00 P.M., Saturday, February 26, 2022, at Shady Grove Baptist Church, Whitewater Road, Ideal, Georgia. Burial will follow at Oglethorpe City Cemetery, Memorial Drive, Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Deacon Hill was born January 29, 1944 in Ideal, Macon County, Georgia to the late O.D. Hill and Daisy Ford Hill. He was preceded in death by three brothers, Curtis Hill, Arthur James Hill, Henry Morris Hill, and one grandson, Quinton Demond Wymbs He acquired his education in the public school system of Macon County where as he attended the historic Ideal Elementary School and the historic D. F. Douglass High School.
He was united in holy matrimony to his one and only love, Lula Bell Webb and to this union they were blessed with seven children which include, John Lewis Hill, Oglethorpe, Georgia, Rickey Lee Hill, Oglethorpe, Georgia, Patricia Ann Hill Athens, Georgia, Melanie Michelle Hill, Athens, Georgia, Jennifer Renae Hill, Overland Park, Kansas, Michael Anthony Hill, Oglethorpe, Georgia and Jeffery Lamar Hill (Tilla), Statham, Georgia; fourteen grandchildren; a host of great grandchildren; siblings Mrs. Pearlie Mae Hill Joseph, and Ollie Hill Harris all of Oglethorpe, Georgia, Larry Hill of Atlanta, Georgia, Douglass Hill, Vero Beach, Florida, Mary Hill Cochran, Oglethorpe, Georgia, Shirley Hill Outler (Clarence) Covington, Georgia, Lemuel Hill, Dennis Hill, Melvin Hill and Gwendolyn Hill Rucker, all of Oglethorpe, Georgia; uncles and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. G.W. (Mary) Wilder, Mrs. Mandy Bell Wilder, Mrs. Lucille Wilder, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Neal (Joyce) Ford, all of Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Ford of Oglethorpe, Georgia, Billy Ford, Jacksonville, Florida. A host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.