Jerry LayneGilliam-Hill

Jerry Layne White Gilliam-Hill, 71, passed from this life on May 10, 2008.

Born on Nov. 28, 1936, in Greenville, she was the only child of Robert Floyd and Lucille Gipson White and the granddaughter of Lawrence and Bessie Wood Gipson and Luther and Birdie Young White. She lived most of her life in Greenville and graduated from Greenville High School in 1954.

She married Charles Milton Gilliam in Commerce on April 23, 1954, and the couple made their first home in Casablanca, French Morocco, because Charles was stationed as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Charles, known as Gil, took a job at Temco, later E-Systems, where he worked until a major illness caused him to retire in 1978.

While living in Greenville Mrs. Gilliam-HIll was a member of Johnson Street Church of Christ and after moving to Virginia was a member of Hope and Glory Christian Church.

She married William Reid HiIl on March 29, 1984, in Greenville where she lived until after his death in 1989. In September 1991 she moved to Yorktown, Va., where she lived with her son and his family until her death this past week.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Tanya Lynne and E.F. Rick Griffin of Sulphur Springs; her son and daughter-in-law, Charles Michael and Diane Gilliam of Seaford, Va.; three stepsons, Reid, Brad and Jay Hill; four grandchildren, Layne Charisse Griffin Nyberg of Houston, Rikki Rashon Griffin Barrett of Sulphur Springs, Austin Robert Gilliam and Megan Layne Gilliam of Seaford, Va.; three stepgrandsons, E.F. Griffin III of Columbia, Md., Justin Benjamin Griffin of Point and Banyon Zacharias Griffin, also of Point but currently serving in Iraq; three great-grandchildren, Ashley Lyn, Elizabeth Layne and Ian Michael Nyberg of Houston, with the fourth, Olivia Leigh, scheduled to join the family in August; seven stepgreat-grandchildren, Matthew Brian and Macy Layne Griffin of Holly Lake Ranch, Caitlin, Cole, Dakota and Mason Griffin of Point, and Samantha Griffin of Columbia, Md.; and four cousins to whom she was extremely close, Robert C. and Ann Manning of Bedford and Charlie and Lynne Manning Costello of Waco.

She was preceded in death by two husbands, Charles M. Gilliam and William R. Hill; her parents; and a beloved aunt and uncle, Noel and Irene Manning of Fort Worth.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Coker-Mathews Funeral Home chapel with President Jeffery Sant of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sulphur Springs presiding. Burial will follow in Memoryland Memorial Park.

Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be E.F. Rick Griffin, Michael J. Nyberg, D. Cameron Barrett, Robert C. Manning, Gary W. Gilliam, Charlie Costello, Matthew B. Griffin and Ian M. Nyberg.