Graveside funeral service for Rita Verne Cockrell Hill will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 9, 2020 at Highland Cemetery with Dr. Robert Gorrell, Senior Pastor, Centenary United Methodist Church officiating.
Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.
The family will greet friends from 5-7 pm Wednesday at the funeral home.
Rita Verne Cockrell Hill passed from this life into the arms of her Savior on Saturday, January 4, 2020. She was born June 29, 1930 to W.H. and Minnie Cockrell in Grandfield, Oklahoma. She moved to Lawton at an early age and was a 1948 graduate of Lawton High School. Her graduating class remained close friends and had yearly reunions and monthly dinners which she looked forward to and helped organize.
Shortly after graduation, Rita met and married Connie Hill, Jr. They were married August 15, 1949. She learned to be a farm wife and welcomed all of the adventures that came with living in the country. Following Connie’s death in 1973, Rita launched her own businesses: Hilltop Craft which offered quilting lessons and fabrics and Decorative Stitch Two which made large Christmas stockings and paper tole pictures that were shipped to stores all over the United States and Puerto Rico.
Rita was an active member of Centenary United Methodist Church where she taught the Crusaders Sunday School Class for over 50 years. She was also active in PEO Chapter I, Daughters of the American Revolution, Junior Service League and the Comanche County Cattlemen’s Association where she served as secretary/treasurer for many years.
She enjoyed playing bridge, traveling, going on cruises and family trips to Possum Kingdom Lake. Later in Life she was passionate about genealogy and loved visiting her newly found family in Alabama.
Survivors include two sons, Clyde Hill and wife Mikel of Lawton, Oklahoma and Mark Hill and wife Anita of Tuttle, Oklahoma; four grandchildren, Cody Hill and wife Chelsey of Lawton, Chuck Seitsinger of Mustang, Oklahoma, Curtis Seitsinger of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Kim Rowe and husband Lane of Mustang; great grandchildren include Callan Hill of Lawton, Parker and Zoey Rowe of Mustang, Chelsea Swank of Norman, Oklahoma and Miranda and Madelyn Seitsinger of Mustang. Other survivors include a niece, Pat Craft and husband Cliff of Abilene, Texas; nephew, Terry Callicott and wife Tammy of Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas; several great nieces; a special cousin, Annie Faye Sullins, Alabama; and a special friend, Michelle Vu, Kansas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers, Woodie Callicott and Howard Cockrell, two sisters, Corinne Henderson and Marie Callicott, and a nephew, Don Callicott.
Special thanks to nurse practitioner Natalie Smith Hamblin and all of the staff at the Chateau for their loving care. Memorial contributions may be made to Centenary United Methodist Church, 704 SW D Avenue, Lawton, Oklahoma 73501.
Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.
The family will greet friends from 5-7 pm Wednesday at the funeral home.
Rita Verne Cockrell Hill passed from this life into the arms of her Savior on Saturday, January 4, 2020. She was born June 29, 1930 to W.H. and Minnie Cockrell in Grandfield, Oklahoma. She moved to Lawton at an early age and was a 1948 graduate of Lawton High School. Her graduating class remained close friends and had yearly reunions and monthly dinners which she looked forward to and helped organize.
Shortly after graduation, Rita met and married Connie Hill, Jr. They were married August 15, 1949. She learned to be a farm wife and welcomed all of the adventures that came with living in the country. Following Connie’s death in 1973, Rita launched her own businesses: Hilltop Craft which offered quilting lessons and fabrics and Decorative Stitch Two which made large Christmas stockings and paper tole pictures that were shipped to stores all over the United States and Puerto Rico.
Rita was an active member of Centenary United Methodist Church where she taught the Crusaders Sunday School Class for over 50 years. She was also active in PEO Chapter I, Daughters of the American Revolution, Junior Service League and the Comanche County Cattlemen’s Association where she served as secretary/treasurer for many years.
She enjoyed playing bridge, traveling, going on cruises and family trips to Possum Kingdom Lake. Later in Life she was passionate about genealogy and loved visiting her newly found family in Alabama.
Survivors include two sons, Clyde Hill and wife Mikel of Lawton, Oklahoma and Mark Hill and wife Anita of Tuttle, Oklahoma; four grandchildren, Cody Hill and wife Chelsey of Lawton, Chuck Seitsinger of Mustang, Oklahoma, Curtis Seitsinger of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Kim Rowe and husband Lane of Mustang; great grandchildren include Callan Hill of Lawton, Parker and Zoey Rowe of Mustang, Chelsea Swank of Norman, Oklahoma and Miranda and Madelyn Seitsinger of Mustang. Other survivors include a niece, Pat Craft and husband Cliff of Abilene, Texas; nephew, Terry Callicott and wife Tammy of Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas; several great nieces; a special cousin, Annie Faye Sullins, Alabama; and a special friend, Michelle Vu, Kansas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers, Woodie Callicott and Howard Cockrell, two sisters, Corinne Henderson and Marie Callicott, and a nephew, Don Callicott.
Special thanks to nurse practitioner Natalie Smith Hamblin and all of the staff at the Chateau for their loving care. Memorial contributions may be made to Centenary United Methodist Church, 704 SW D Avenue, Lawton, Oklahoma 73501.
Graveside funeral service for Rita Verne Cockrell Hill will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 9, 2020 at Highland Cemetery with Dr. Robert Gorrell, Senior Pastor, Centenary United Methodist Church officiating.
Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.
The family will greet friends from 5-7 pm Wednesday at the funeral home.
Rita Verne Cockrell Hill passed from this life into the arms of her Savior on Saturday, January 4, 2020. She was born June 29, 1930 to W.H. and Minnie Cockrell in Grandfield, Oklahoma. She moved to Lawton at an early age and was a 1948 graduate of Lawton High School. Her graduating class remained close friends and had yearly reunions and monthly dinners which she looked forward to and helped organize.
Shortly after graduation, Rita met and married Connie Hill, Jr. They were married August 15, 1949. She learned to be a farm wife and welcomed all of the adventures that came with living in the country. Following Connie’s death in 1973, Rita launched her own businesses: Hilltop Craft which offered quilting lessons and fabrics and Decorative Stitch Two which made large Christmas stockings and paper tole pictures that were shipped to stores all over the United States and Puerto Rico.
Rita was an active member of Centenary United Methodist Church where she taught the Crusaders Sunday School Class for over 50 years. She was also active in PEO Chapter I, Daughters of the American Revolution, Junior Service League and the Comanche County Cattlemen’s Association where she served as secretary/treasurer for many years.
She enjoyed playing bridge, traveling, going on cruises and family trips to Possum Kingdom Lake. Later in Life she was passionate about genealogy and loved visiting her newly found family in Alabama.
Survivors include two sons, Clyde Hill and wife Mikel of Lawton, Oklahoma and Mark Hill and wife Anita of Tuttle, Oklahoma; four grandchildren, Cody Hill and wife Chelsey of Lawton, Chuck Seitsinger of Mustang, Oklahoma, Curtis Seitsinger of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Kim Rowe and husband Lane of Mustang; great grandchildren include Callan Hill of Lawton, Parker and Zoey Rowe of Mustang, Chelsea Swank of Norman, Oklahoma and Miranda and Madelyn Seitsinger of Mustang. Other survivors include a niece, Pat Craft and husband Cliff of Abilene, Texas; nephew, Terry Callicott and wife Tammy of Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas; several great nieces; a special cousin, Annie Faye Sullins, Alabama; and a special friend, Michelle Vu, Kansas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers, Woodie Callicott and Howard Cockrell, two sisters, Corinne Henderson and Marie Callicott, and a nephew, Don Callicott.
Special thanks to nurse practitioner Natalie Smith Hamblin and all of the staff at the Chateau for their loving care. Memorial contributions may be made to Centenary United Methodist Church, 704 SW D Avenue, Lawton, Oklahoma 73501.
Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.
The family will greet friends from 5-7 pm Wednesday at the funeral home.
Rita Verne Cockrell Hill passed from this life into the arms of her Savior on Saturday, January 4, 2020. She was born June 29, 1930 to W.H. and Minnie Cockrell in Grandfield, Oklahoma. She moved to Lawton at an early age and was a 1948 graduate of Lawton High School. Her graduating class remained close friends and had yearly reunions and monthly dinners which she looked forward to and helped organize.
Shortly after graduation, Rita met and married Connie Hill, Jr. They were married August 15, 1949. She learned to be a farm wife and welcomed all of the adventures that came with living in the country. Following Connie’s death in 1973, Rita launched her own businesses: Hilltop Craft which offered quilting lessons and fabrics and Decorative Stitch Two which made large Christmas stockings and paper tole pictures that were shipped to stores all over the United States and Puerto Rico.
Rita was an active member of Centenary United Methodist Church where she taught the Crusaders Sunday School Class for over 50 years. She was also active in PEO Chapter I, Daughters of the American Revolution, Junior Service League and the Comanche County Cattlemen’s Association where she served as secretary/treasurer for many years.
She enjoyed playing bridge, traveling, going on cruises and family trips to Possum Kingdom Lake. Later in Life she was passionate about genealogy and loved visiting her newly found family in Alabama.
Survivors include two sons, Clyde Hill and wife Mikel of Lawton, Oklahoma and Mark Hill and wife Anita of Tuttle, Oklahoma; four grandchildren, Cody Hill and wife Chelsey of Lawton, Chuck Seitsinger of Mustang, Oklahoma, Curtis Seitsinger of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Kim Rowe and husband Lane of Mustang; great grandchildren include Callan Hill of Lawton, Parker and Zoey Rowe of Mustang, Chelsea Swank of Norman, Oklahoma and Miranda and Madelyn Seitsinger of Mustang. Other survivors include a niece, Pat Craft and husband Cliff of Abilene, Texas; nephew, Terry Callicott and wife Tammy of Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas; several great nieces; a special cousin, Annie Faye Sullins, Alabama; and a special friend, Michelle Vu, Kansas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers, Woodie Callicott and Howard Cockrell, two sisters, Corinne Henderson and Marie Callicott, and a nephew, Don Callicott.
Special thanks to nurse practitioner Natalie Smith Hamblin and all of the staff at the Chateau for their loving care. Memorial contributions may be made to Centenary United Methodist Church, 704 SW D Avenue, Lawton, Oklahoma 73501.
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