Clara Elaine Hillyer, 90, of Mexico , died at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004, at Mexico Manor.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, Oct. 1, at 10 a.m. at Pickering Funeral Home with the Rev. Randall Sawyer officiating. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Park . Visitation will be on Thursday from 6 until 7 p.m., and on Friday from 9 a.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home.

Mrs. Hillyer was born on Dec. 28, 1913, in Greenville, Mo., a daughter of James and Edith Hannipal Cline. On April 4, 1931, in Greenville, she married Willis A. Hillyer, who died on Sept. 23, 1991. 

Survivors include two sisters, Louise Douglas and Lucille Shaver, St. Louis, and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, one sister, Jewel Baskin, and a son, Alfred Hillyer, preceded her in death.

The Twenty-Third Psalm 

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul;
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness
for His name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil for thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me
in the presence of mine enemies.
Thou anointest my head with oil;
My cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy
shall follow me all the days of my life
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
for ever.

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