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| Bills, Virginia Robertson Kiker 227996 |
| Birth: 02/12/1912 Death: 06/01/2002 Marriage: Twice |
| Cemetery: Hickory Grove (NOT PLOTTED) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, June 02, 2002: 'Virginia Kiker-Bills, 90, of Denton, formerly of Paris, died Saturday, June 1, 2002 at Denton Regional Medical Center of complications of pneumonia. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Monday, June 3 at Oak Park United Methodist Church with the Rev. Steve Cook officiating. Interment will follow at Hickory Grove Cemetery in Petty under the direction of Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 4 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. She was born Virginia Ann Robertson on Feb. 12, 1912 in Harmon in Southwest Lamar County to W. A. and Susan Morris Robertson. She attended public schools in Boswell, Okla., as well as in Roxton and Paris. She graduated from Paris High School in 1928. She attended Paris Junior College and received her bachelor's degree in arts from Texas Tech University in 1932. She received her master's degree in education from East Texas State University in 1961. From 1932 to 1934 she taught in Bowie County and Duncanville. She taught music at Fourth Ward Elementary School in the Paris Independent School district from 1953 until her retirement in 1973. She married Orrin Smith Kiker in 1935. He preceded her in death in 1972. She married Warren E. Bills in 1973. She attended Oak Park United Methodist Church in Paris and served there as organist and choir director. She has resided in Denton since 1990 to be near her son, Orrin Smith Kiker Jr. and his family. She was a past president of the Paris chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, Paris Classroom Teachers Association and Paris Music Study Club. She was also a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Texas State Teachers Association, Kappa Delta Pi and National Retired Teachers Association. During World War II she served as an Air Raid Warden. Survivors include her husband, Warren E. Bills; her son, Smith Kiker and his wife Etha; one granddaughter, Kimberly Kiker Cates; one great-granddaughter, Emily Adelle Cates, all of Denton; and three nephews.' |