Mrs. Lida Sheppard Hill, age, 94 of Benton, KY passed away Sunday, April 1, 2018, at Calvert City Convalescent Center in Calvert City, KY.
Born Sunday, March 16, 1924 in Heights, KY (near Aurora), Mrs. Hill relocated and spent most of her years on a farm in the Sharpe Community. After high school, she began working at the Florsheim Shoe Factory in Paducah. She was a rural mail carrier until her retirement from the United States Postal Service in Benton, KY. She even delivered baby chicks to a new home. She was very civic minded, always wanting to help others, and ran for the office of Marshall County Commissioner in the 1990's. Mrs. Hill was a very strong willed and opinionated women. She supported Marshall County basketball faithfully, attending games from the 1940's watching the Sharpe Green Devils, North Marshall Jets, and the Marshall County Marshals, attending her last game in 2011. Also, she was a supporter of Southern Harmony Singing, Big Singing Day in Benton, and was a large help to her church, Sharpe Missionary Baptist Church. Above all, she loved and took care of her family in every way.
She is survived by special nieces, Emma Lou Wells, husband Don of Paducah, KY, Etta Fay Farmer, huband Tommy of Benton, KY, niece, Icy Barrett, great nieces and nephews, great-great nieces and nephews, and Pinnegar and Sheppard cousins, foster children, Rafe Thomas and Gary Seay.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Claude V. Sheppard and Eva (Pinnegar) Sheppard, by her husband, Woodrow Jasper Hill, her brother, Thanuel Sheppard, who was killed in World War II in operation Tiger, and two sisters, Adell Collins and Iola Jones.
Funeral services will be held Friday, April 6, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of the Collier Funeral Home, Benton, KY. Rev. Jeremy Short will officiate. Interment will follow the service in the Fooks Cemetery, Benton, KY.
Friends may visit with the family between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at the Collier Funeral Home, 211 West 5th St., Benton, KY.
The family asks that memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society, 3140 Parisa Dr, Paducah, KY 42003 or the American Diabetes Association, 2451 Crystal Drive, Suite 900, Arlington, VA 22202.
