Lillian Hunt Hillmon left her earthly life on June 25, 2021 at the age of 85 at Harbor Hospice Facility in Houston, Texas.

The eldest child of Marie (Bridges) Hunt and Henry Hunt, Lillian was born on February 7, 1936 in Atlanta, GA. After graduating from high school, Lillian met and married Harvey Hillmon, Jr of Monroe, Georgia. Shortly after their nuptials, Harvey joined the Air Force and they began their International and Domestic travels. They were stationed in Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Hawaii, California, Maine, Guam, Philippines and Japan where Lillian was involved in any opportunity to volunteer on and off the Air Force bases. During these travels a daughter and two sons were born, Cami Rebecca in 1958, Jarron David in 1962 and Christopher Joseph in 1964. While on the military bases, Lillian immersed herself in volunteering. She was also a scout leader when her boys were involved. Cami participated in plays and musicals and mom would be the first to sign up to make costumes.  Upon Harvey’s military retirement in 1974, the family settled in Friendswood, Texas where the youngest, Katrina Joy was born. Lillian worked at Sears for many years starting during the holidays wrapping gifts that would allow her to get out of the house. This then transitioned to taking a position in the children’s department where she later became a manager. An opportunity opened in loss prevention and she decided to give it a try where she worked until retirement. Deciding to care for her granddaughter Jessica, making the decision to retire was an easy one.

Lillian was involved in PTA at McWhirter Elementary, Webster Intermediate and Clear Creek High School where she cheered for Jarron while he played football. Once Katrina was school-age, she found herself in PTA again at PH Greene, Webster Intermediate and Clear Brook High School where she was a chaperone for the band. She used those sewing skills again to be the mom who all the band kids could turn to if their uniform needed last minute alterations. Once Jessie was school-age, the volunteering and PTA involvement started again at Wedgewood Elementary, Brookside Intermediate and once again Clear Brook.

When the family moved to Friendswood they immediately found Friendswood UMC as their church home. Lillian became involved in volunteering with VBS and the CIA Sunday School class where she served as class treasurer. She also organized the yearly event of putting the Seaman Boxes and care packages for the women’s center together and buying all of the supplies and looked forward to it every year. Lillian also joined the choir as a soprano and looked forward to singing at rehearsal on Wednesday and during service every Sunday morning. She made sure Katrina participated in choir, VBS, MYF and any other available activities. Any opportunity to be active in the church, Lillian participated. She also loved attending plays at Harbor Playhouse in Dickinson and weekly trips to Walmart. You would often find her making banana pudding or requesting Jessie make brownies with pecans. As she became older and couldn’t stand as long, we often found her making banana pudding in her bed which we all got a kick out of. She loved when her son-in-love, Aaron would BBQ and would request brisket, marinated chicken or link sausages, or as she would refer to them, “those fat sausages from HEB.” She loved her family and having everyone around whatever the occasion. Mom was so proud of all her grandkids and couldn’t wait for AJ to graduate this year. It was the last event she would see.

Lillian is survived by her son Jarron David and wife Teresa.;Christopher Joseph (Oregon) and Katrina Joy and husband Aaron Cain, Sr of Friendswood, Texas. Grandchildren Aisha Desiree and partner Cody Pogue; Kristin “Mini” Marie and partner TJ Boone , Jessie Rene and partner Tyler Carrette; Christopher Aiah and Joshua Thomas Hillmon (Oregon) and Aaron “AJ” Cain, Jr. , Katherine Taylor-McBroom (VT), Steven Eacret and Shannon Rodriguez.  Great Grandchildren Ariana Deleon, Anaceli Morales, Henry McBroom (VT), Serenity Taylor, Donetta Taylor and Caoimhe Eacret.   Lillian had a favorite niece, Jacquelyn Diane (ATL) and host of other nieces, nephews and cousins in Georgia.

In addition to her husband of 55 years, Harvey, Lillian was predeceased by her daughter Cami Rebecca; brothers Charles and Billy and sister Mary Jeanette; her mother Marie Bridges and her father Henry, and grandchild Kenneth Taylor.

Lillian left behind a strong family legacy of service, compassion, love, strength and family. It’s something that will only strengthen over time and we are determined to make her proud of what she created. We are finding we are stronger together than we are apart.

In lieu of a funeral, Lillian requested a Celebration of Life service and cremation. Her service will be held at Friendswood UMC in Wesley Hall on Saturday July 10^th, 10am.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations to Alzheimer’s Association or Doll House where she lived before her death.

The Hillmon-Cain family want to thank everyone for their love and support during this challenging time. The food, prayers, positive thoughts, phone calls and check-ins have been welcomed and appreciated. We could not have asked for a better village of friends and family.

Katrina Joy would like to personally thank Crystal J. Williams and Rebecca L. Castro along with her work family and physicans at UTMB Health for their endless love, support and advanced knowledge of maneuvering through the healthcare system to assist the family in getting the best care for mom and for taking good care of her during her decline in health. From the ER, social workers, the physicians, nurses and PSS staff, they moved mountains to get mom in to appointments and treated. We are so thankful.

The family would also like to thank Doll House for accepting mom into their personal care home and caring for her as only family would. She was only there a brief time but extremely well cared for and was treated as more than just a resident and for that we will be extremely grateful.

We want to thank Harbor Hospice and Melinda Kryder who acted fast once the decision had been made to admit her to hospice and got her in quickly. They kept us updated and were caring and compassionate when we would visit. They took wonderful care of her during her final week and we are could not have asked for anything more.

Finally, thank you to Friendswood UMC for their years of support to the Hillmon family and especially mom. She loved her church home and it comforts us to know she is celebrating with the biggest choir and watching us all from above. She had a servant’s heart with an even bigger smile to match it and our wish is that will be what those who loved her will remember most about her.