Patricia Ruth Pilcher Hitchner

Published 10:22 am Thursday, February 6, 2014

Funeral services for Patricia Ruth Pilcher Hitcher are pending with Calvary Memorial Funeral Home in Hobbs, N.M.

Mrs. Hitchner died Jan. 31, 2014, in Hobbs, N.M. She was born in South Gate, Calif., on Jan. 23, 1931, to Mary B. and Albert M. Pilcher.

She married William G. Hitchner in Vineland, N.J., on Sept. 17, 1949. She then proceeded to raise seven children, first in Vineland, and then in Brookhaven beginning in 1960. Her husband worked for Hartley Gove and Sons for many years. All seven of her children attended Brookhaven Public Schools as well as Jackson Street United Methodist Church, of which Pat considered herself a member until her death.

Preceding her in death were her parents; sisters, Berta and Lee; brothers, Edward and Edgar Pilcher; and her beloved husband, William.

Survivors include her daughters, Deni Selvig and husband Kermit of Fairfield Glade, Tenn., Janet Matula of Walls, Elizabeth Hall and husband Dennis of Brookhaven, Mary Brister and husband Luke of Hobbs, N.M.; sons, Richard Hitchner and wife Sherry of Widefield, Colo., David Hitchner and wife Kathy of Baton Rouge, La. and Kevin Hitchner and wife Laura of Tulsa, Okla.; 16 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and multiple step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren.