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- Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - July 10, 1996
Deceased Name: COVINGTON - James Russell 'J. R.' Hill Jr.
COVINGTON - James Russell 'J. R.' Hill Jr., 69, retired human resources employee with Clopay, died of heart failure Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church, where he was a deacon and elder, with burial in Covington Memorial Gardens. Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home has charge. He was chairman of the Tennessee Job Service Employer Committee from 1978-1985, the Region IV Job Service Employer Committee from 1982-1986 and the Employers National Job Service Committee from 1988-1990, and vice chairman of Employers National Job Service Committee from 1986-1988. He also was chairman of the Tipton County Planning Commission and the business and industry committee of the General Advisory Council. He was a board member and past chairman of the Memphis Industrial Personnel Council. He was a former board member of Covington Chamber of Commerce. He was past chairman of the Tennessee Industrial Personnel Conference, the Area Vocational School General Advisory Council, Tipton County Manufacturing Council, Covington High School Booster Club, and the awards committee of the District of Exchange Clubs. He was a past vice chairman of the Covington Planning Commission and received a Distinguished Service Award for 30 years of service. He was a member of the Private Industry Council. He was a former member of the Memphis Board of Directors of State Technical Institute. He had served on the Evening Division Board of Christian Brothers College. He was in the Tennessee State National Guard from 1942-1945, when he entered the Army. He had served in France, the Philippines and Korea. He received the Expert Infantry Badge and Army Commendation Ribbon. In 1947, he served full-time as chief warrant officer and first sergeant with the Tennessee National Guard until 1966. In 1993, he became a colonel in the Tennessee Defense Force. He was a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Masonic Lodge and the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was past president of the West Tennessee Saddle Club. He was chairman of the annual Charity Walking Horse Show and the annual Three-Day Tennessee High School Championship Rodeo for five years. He was a former advisory board member of the West Tennessee Boy Scouts of America, from which he received the Silver Beaver Award. He had served as an honorary colonel on the staffs of former governors Ned McWherter and Lamar Alexander, from whom he'd received three certificates of appreciation and a letter. He also received the Book of Golden Deeds from the Covington Exchange Club, a life membership and a 1983 citation from the Tennessee Chapter of Industrial Association Personnel Employee Security, and a resolution from the Tennessee House of Representatives. He received the James House Williamson Award and Outstanding Industrial Relations Manager from the Tennessee Industrial Council and the University of Tennessee. Mr. Hill, the husband of Gloria Goulder Hill, also leaves a daughter, Donna Lynn Johnson of Cartersville, Ga.; a son, James Timothy Hill of Grand Rapids, Mich.; four sisters, Christine Curtis of Munford, Clara McMillin of Burlison, Mary Glenn Sturdivant of Memphis and Bessie Wooten of Covington, and three grandsons.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: July 10, 1996
Edition: First
Page: A10
Record Number: 9607110091
Copyright (c) 1996 The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN [3]
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