"Mykie" Billie Marie Vogel Hill

Mykie was her happiest when she was working and holding a child. She loved her children and her grandchildren, including the little ones she taught in Sunday School at the Nazarene Church in Plainview, Texas and the children of “Watoto” children’s orphanage in Uganda, Africa. This is when you observed her best, biggest and brightest smile.

Mykie attended Tascosa High School and Palo Duro High School and Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas; she obtained her Licensed Vocational Nurse Certification and worked with Northwest Texas Hospital until she became a mother. She was a great stay at home mother to her three children. When Curtis was in middle school she returned to work as a nursing assistant and office manager for an obstetrician-gynecologist in Plainview, Texas. When Curtis began college, Mykie returned to South Plains College in Levelland, Texas and obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, she worked with Methodist Hospital in Lubbock, Hospice and completed her career as a home health care administrator.

Mykie, being an only child, adored and loved her vast family. She enjoyed all the family gatherings, celebrating birthdays, holidays and the togetherness of fellowship. She was a great hostess to family, friends and her church family, and especially loved playing games. While attending college, Mykie was an avid archer; she was honored as a runner up for “Miss Amarillo”, Mother of the year at First Church of the Nazarene in Plainview and she and Eddie were recognized as Resident Couple of the Month at Hidden Springs of McKinney.

Mykie is preceded in death by her father Harold Vogel, her mother Alma Jeane Pickett Vogel Stark, her grandparents William Claude and Minnie Bell Pickett, her aunt Billie Faye Pickett Ham, her father and mother-in-law Wylie F. and Mattie B. Hill, brother-in-law Freddie Hill, brother and sister-in-law John R. and Peggy Hill and her youngest son Curtis Hill.

She is survived by her husband of 61.5 years Eddie; Scotty and Tracy her children. Gayle, her daughter-in-law; her grandchildren Lauren and Alex; her aunt Claudeane M. Sublett; her cousins Cynthia and Ken Ham (Norma his wife), sister-in-law Glenda Hill (son Tony), niece and husband Malee and Brian Hundsdorfer and family, nephews Mike Hill and Mark Hill their families, and many loving extended family members.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association.