Lillie V. (Hall) Jones, a resident of Kankakee, Ill., a former resident of this area, died Nov. 7 in Illinois. She was 74.
Services were Nov. 14 at Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Bradley, Ill., with the Rev. Vincent Edward Clark officiating. Interment followed at Kankakee Memorial Gardens. Jones Funeral Home in Kankakee was in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include her husband, Harry W. Jones, to whom she was married March 12, 1960; her mother, Ida Mae Minor Terry of Kankakee, Ill., one daughter, Patricia Strickland of Kankakee, Ill.; six grandchildren, Alisha Clark of Bourbonnais, Ill., Dawn Hill, Earnest Strickland Jr., Terry B. Moore and Mila Moore, all of Kankakee, Ill., and Melissa Strickland of South Fulton; and eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father, E. B. Hall; one son, Terry Tyrone Moore; and one grandson, Matrillin Moore.
Born Aug. 26, 1935, near Tiptonville, Tenn., she attended school in Tennessee and St. Louis, Mo., where she was a member of the track team at Summer High School. She then returned to this area, moving to Fulton.
She had been employed at St. Mary’s Hospital and General Foods Coupon Redemption Center, and the City of Kankakee as a code enforcement officer, retiring in 1999. She then became a community service officer with the department until 2001. She was a member of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church. She was a member of the City of Kankakee Mayoral Advisory Committee; the Kankakee Railroad Museum Committee; Kankakee Santa Train Committee; Christmas in April of Kankakee County Committee; the boards of directors of Kankakee County Housing Authority, Neighborhood Partners of Kankakee and Kankakee Neighborhood Housing Association; and the Coalition Against Domestic Violence Task Force.
