{"id":11706,"date":"2023-08-02T18:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T22:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=11706"},"modified":"2023-08-02T18:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T22:42:38","slug":"hill-karl-ervin-archie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/hill-karl-ervin-archie\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill, Karl Ervin &#8220;Archie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary\">\n<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary__text\">\n<div class=\"obituary edit-container\">\n<p class=\"obituary-text edit\">Karl Ervin \u201cArchie\u201d Hill was born on June 24, 1954 in Nashville, TN to the late John Ervin and Hattie Mae Hill. He departed this life on Saturday, July 15, 2023, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"obituary-text edit\">Karl was educated in the Hickman County School System in Centerville, Tennessee.\u00a0 Upon graduation, he entered the United States Navy and served as a hull technician (welder) on the USS Hunley based out of Charleston, South Carolina. After leaving active military service, Karl continued to perform as a welder in the civilian community at Freeman Lumber Company for numerous years until developing health problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"obituary-text edit\">Karl grew up in the Centerville Church of God as a youngster and later professed a hope in Christ and became a member of the Arrow Rock Church of Christ in Williamsport, Tennessee.\u00a0 Karl was known for his \u201cbig\u2019 heart. He was always helping others and dedicating his time and resources to assist his family, friends, community and often even strangers experiencing the \u2018hard knocks\u201d of life. He was known for his unwavering love for his Dallas Cowboys and later grew an affinity for the Cincinnati Bengals. You also often could find him engrossed in a good movie or western and keeping abreast of all the Centerville happenings in the Hickman County Times. He was crafty in assembling the tedious details of model cars, trains, and boats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"obituary-text edit\">In addition to his parents, Karl was preceded in death by maternal grandparents, Bertha Carter Harris and Everheart Carter; paternal grandparents, Hattie and Andrew Hill and numerous aunts and uncles and one great nephew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"obituary-text edit\">He leaves to cherish his memories two sisters, Eddreana Powell and Annette Campbell of Hendersonville, TN and one god-sister, Emma McClain of Hanover, MD; Life Companion, Ruby Peters of Centerville, TN; one nephew, Damien (Jaime) Powell of Cincinnati, OH; two great nephews, Dillan<br \/>\nElkins of Nashville, TN and Dominic Powell of Cincinnati, OH; two great nieces, Marissa Hinkel and Mia Powell of Cincinnati, OH; Special cousins, Janette Carter and Deatrice Wells of Nashville, TN, Vivian Mack of Milwaukee, WI, David Wells of Pueblo, CO, Preston Carter of Baton Rouge, LA, and Sharon Jernigan and Chester Gray of Southfield, MI; and numerous other cousins and friends.<\/p>\n<div class=\"event-7896623 location-block event-block \">\n<div class=\"location-block__header\">\n<p class=\"location-block__title\">Visitation with the family will be 22 July 2023 from 10:00 AM &#8211; 11:00 AM at McDonald Funeral Home &#8211; Hickman County.\u00a0 Funeral Services will be 22 July 2023 at 11:00 AM at McDonald Funeral Home &#8211; Hickman County.\u00a0 Burial will follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery, Centerville, TN.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"event-7896624 location-block event-block \">\n<div class=\"location-block__body location-block__body--flex\">\n<div class=\"location-block__content\">\n<div class=\"location-block__address\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"obituary-text edit\">The family requests in lieu of flowers memorial donations be made to the Tennessee Kidney Foundation in honor and memory of Karl Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The service can be viewed via Facebook live on the following page: <a title=\"Click to open in a new window or tab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/McDonaldFH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/McDonaldFH<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Ervin \u201cArchie\u201d Hill was born on June 24, 1954 in Nashville, TN to the late John Ervin and Hattie Mae Hill. He departed this life on Saturday, July 15, 2023, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Karl was educated in the Hickman County School System in Centerville, Tennessee.\u00a0 Upon graduation, he entered the United States Navy and served as a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/hill-karl-ervin-archie\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[55,758,2473,250,711,6078,1261,6079,59,379,688,266],"class_list":["post-11706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","tag-campbell","tag-carter","tag-elkins","tag-gray","tag-hill","tag-hinkel","tag-jernigan","tag-mack","tag-mcclain","tag-peters","tag-powell","tag-wells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}