Joyce Hester
Posted: April 16, 2021
MILLPORT, Ala. — Joyce Hill Hester, 86, died April 13, 2021, at Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama.
Graveside services are at 2 p.m. today, at Greenhill Memorial Gardens in Reform, Alabama, with Larry Shelton officiating. Dowdle Funeral Home of Millport is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Hester was born May 29, 1934, in Jackson County, Alabama, to Webb C. and Essie Fowler Hill. She was a graduate of Scottsboro High school, Alabama College for Women and the University of Alabama. She was formerly employed as a teacher of math and science with Eutaw High School, Pickens County High School, Pickens Academy and Central High school.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Samuel E. Hester; siblings, Howard Hill, Webb Hill, Roxa Rheams, Thelma Prince and Mary Cook; and one grandchild.
She is survived by her children, Brenda Bobo and Donna Rogers; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.