Obituaries of DECEMBER 1984 Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La.

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The date preceding the obituary is the date of the newspaper, not the date of
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Dec. 27, 1984
Daily Comet, Lafourche Parish, La.
Submitted by: Chris Tidwell

James Hill

Wake services have been scheduled for 8 p.m. today at Bell Baptist
Church in Raceland for James Hill, 68, who died at 10 p.m. Sunday in
Gheens. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Sunlight
Baptist Church in Gheens with interment in Sunlight Baptist Church
Cemetery. Hill was born in Gheens on August 1, 1916 and was known as one
of the top cane producers in the area. He served, as an advisory board
member with South Louisiana Electric Cooperative and committee member on
the Cooperative Extension Service, was master mason of the St. Joseph
Lodge No. 15 and an active deacon and treasurer of the Sunlight Baptist
Church in Gheens. He was awarded numerous honors for sugar production
from the parish Farm Bureau and the American Sugar Cane League and was
known as "Mr. Sucrose" to his fellow sugar cane farmers because of his
crop's high sugar content. He was the husband of Bessie Shelby Hill of
Brooklyn; father of Barbara Hill Smith of Lockport; adopted son of
Marvin Washington of Gheens and Audrey Armant of Raceland; and the
brother of Mertha Hill and Gladys Thompson, both of Gheens, Doretha
Brown and Jessie Hill, both of New Orleans. He is also survived by nine
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by
his parents, Jefferson Hill and Laura Robinson Hill; and a brother
Edward Hill. Arrangements by Williams and Southall Funeral Home,
Thibodaux.