Myrtle Hill

Myrtle Lee Ward Hill, 92, of Lexington Health Care, died Monday, August 23, 2010, at Lexington Health Care. The funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at Jersey Baptist Church, where she was a member, by the Rev. Mike Collier. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends 1 to 2 p.m. prior to the service at the church and other times at the home of the granddaughter on Hillside Court in Winston-Salem. Mrs. Hill was born on Dec. 17, 1917, in Stokes County, to William Ward and Lula Cook Ward. She was retired from Dixie Furniture and a member of the Ladies Circle at her church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Clifford Lindsay Hill; brother, Fred Ward; and a sister, Octavia Yow. Surviving are a daughter, Dawn Gray of Lexington; two grandchildren, Misti White and husband Sam of Winston-Salem and Melissa Gray of Connecticut; two great-grandchildren, Dalton White and Brennan White, both of Winston-Salem; a sister, Thelma Tedder; and longtime friends who were like family, Shelia Hoover and husband Mickey and their children, Will and Andy, and Sherry O'Neill and husband Scott and their children, Robin and Stephanie. Memorials may be made to Lexington Health Care, 17 Cornelia Drive, Lexington, NC 27292.