Janie Butler Hill

Janie Butler Hill, 75, died Saturday, January 14, 2012, in Clarendon.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, January 16, 2012, in Community Fellowship Church in Clarendon with Rev. Darrell Burton, Rev. Larry Capranica and Rev. Anthony Knowles, officiating.

Burial followed at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Janie was born June 13, 1936, in Clarendon to Maclin Robert and Jackie Emerson Butler.  She married Ralph Hill on February 29, 1952, in Clovis, New Mexico.  She worked for many years as a grocery clerk for Clifford’s Grocery Store and Lowe’s Grocery Store.

She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a great grandmother, a friend, a companion, and to anyone who crossed her path, she was an example of how we are to live in and move through this world.  One would be hard pressed to recall a nasty word or a bad mood or even a dirty look.

In fact, it would be impossible to remember a moment when she was not full up with love, and hope, and forgiveness. Always ready with a smile and kind words, she lived everyday with acceptance and complete understanding for those she loved.  And she loved everyone she knew-without condition.

Her heart was large enough to encompass the world and despite her short stature and her small voice, she held in her a quiet and unyielding strength of love that radiated in a blinding light from her heart and from her soul.  We know that muscle can move walls but if the world and all of its people had in them her capacity for love, we could move mountains.

Among the list of survivors, one must also include her friends, co-workers, acquaintances, and anyone who, if only for a moment, was lucky enough to be in the presence of true Grace.  7

She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, James Carroll “Mush” Butler; and a grandson, Randy Joe Hill, Jr.

She is survived by her husband, Ralph Hill of Clarendon; 3 sons, Danny Hill and wife Debra of Clarendon, Randy Hill and wife Kay Lynn of Canyon, and Tommy Hill and wife Brenda of Clarendon; a daughter, Linda Hill of Clarendon; 9 grandchildren, Dakota Hill, Jadon Thornton, Jake Thornton, Jarad Lax, Gabe Hill and wife Amanda, Katy Miller and husband Matt, Jenny Baker and husband Justin, Courtney D‘Costa and husband Chris, and Lauren Shadle; and 11 great grandchildren.

She is also survived by her two special friends Bunny Owens and Cherrye Howard of Clarendon.

The family request memorials be sent to Donley County Sr. Citizens.

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