Nina Mae Hill was
born April 28, 1926, The sixth child of the late Hugh Clarence and Mary
Nina Vann Penny Williams in Johnson County North Carolina. Mae joined Springfield Baptist Church at
an early age and enjoyed serving on the usher Board. She was educated in the wake County
school system graduating from Garner Colored High School. She attended Shaw University in Raleigh
North Carolina and transferred after two years to the Cortez Peters
Business School of in Baltimore Maryland.
She worked as a secretary in Baltimore for several years before
moving to New York City New York.
Mae continued secretarial work through the years for firms and
publishing companies in New York.
She later changed her occupation due to health concerns and became a
household manager for prominent New Yorkers.
May met and married James J. Hill Jr. (Sony) on July 29, 1967 in Bronx,
New York. They enjoyed traveling abroad and had a full life. If you've visited them in New York you
were certainly in for a treat. Mae loved
to cook, shop and entertain.
Together they made you feel so at home. Mae and Sunny retired to Raleigh North
Carolina in 1995. Their life journey
together ended after 30 years of marriage upon Sonny’s death in 1997.
Mae traveled home often and she always arrived early in the morning.
She loved her family dearly. Though
she had no children, she loved to spoil her nieces, nephews and even her
younger siblings. She was a steadfast
daughter, sister, aunt, cousin and friend in times of trouble and could
always be counted on for help in any situation. The family could depend on her coming
home if someone was sick and nothing would stop her. She opened her home to her nieces and
nephews when necessary and became a surrogate mother. After moving to Raleigh, she worked with
her sister Maude in her daycare business.
Later she cared for her sister Maude, with the help of her sister
Emma, Ulean and Shirley.
In addition to her husband, Mae was preceded in death by her parents,
brothers Carless and Ardies and sisters Maude and Ulean. However she leaves to cherish her memory
four brothers Maurice C. Williams Ulice H. Williams, Linton J. Williams,
(Daisy), Pete C Williams, (Florene), two sisters Emma Joanne W. Davidson and
Shirley W. Tomlinson (George) two brothers-in-law trawls Charles Peppers,
Isaiah Goodson all of Raleigh; two
sister-in-law Ardrey W. Williams Raleigh North Carolina Joyce Foster
Columbia, South Carolina; a special friend Cebrittia Hinton of Queens New York
and a host of cousins nieces and nephews and friends.
