Mrs. Mary Ruth Hill

Mrs. Mary Ruth Hill, 89, peacefully passed away on August 15, 2025, at her home in Cedar Bluff. Mary Ruth was born on June 18, 1936, in Cedar Bluff, to the late Lonnie and Alma Mae Williams. She was a 1954 graduate of West Point High School. She then received a Bachelor's Degree in Home Economics from MUW. She was a teacher in the Public School System for 42 years. She was an active member of Cedar Bluff Baptist Church. She loved her Lord and Savior, her family, and her friends. If you knew her, you were family. She enjoyed sewing, cooking, gardening, old movies, and spending time with family. She was known as the local movie rental queen to all the neighborhood kids. She married Gilbert Hill on February 7, 1959, in Dumas, and he predeceased her on July 2, 1994. Together they shared 35 years. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by two daughters, Mary Gayle Wylie and Julie Ann Fulton, two sons-in-law, Richard Wylie and Mike Collums, one sister, Anne Long, and one brother, Cecil Williams. Visitation will be Friday, August 22, 2025, from 9:00-11:00 A.M. at Cedar Bluff Baptist Church in Cedar Bluff. Graveside services will follow at 3:00 P.M. from Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery, 2045 Highway 30 East, Dumas Mississippi, with Reverend Todd Chesser officiating. Calvert Funeral Home of West Point is honored to be entrusted with the arrangements. Survivors include one daughter, Gwen Collums of Cedar Bluff: three grandchildren, Brad Collums (Jeanine) of West Point, Henry Wylie (Jessica) of Dumas, and Mary Burns (Kent) of Cedar Bluff: five great-grandchildren, Chandler Collums (Baylee) and Payton Collums, both of West Point, and Julianna Mae Wylie, Abigayle Kate Wylie, and Avery Elizabeth Wylie, all of Dumas: one son-in-law, George Fulton of Kamiah, Idaho: one sister-in-law: Linda Ann Gray of Dumas, and a number of nieces, nephews, and other of extended family. Pallbearers will be Jackie Mauney, Tim Mauney, Anthony Mauney, Joseph Johnson, Sam May, and Jeffrey Gray. Honorary Pallbearers will be Dr. Ned Miller and Staff at West Point Family Medical Clinic, Nurses and Staff of North Mississippi Medical Center Home Health Care and Hospice, and her many friends at Cedar Bluff Baptist Church. Memorials may be made to LeBonheur Children's Hospital, 848 Adams Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38103 or to Cedar Bluff Baptist Church, P.O. Box 65, Cedar Bluff, Mississippi 39741. Friends may leave an online condolence at www.calvertfuneralhome.com

Mrs. Mary Ruth Hill

June 18, 1936 - August 15, 2025