Funeral service for Wilma Ruth Hitt Carroll, age 96, of Hillsboro will be 12:00 p.m. on Monday, December 4, 2023, at Mount View Baptist Church with Pastor Mark Milwee and Devlon Carroll officiating. The family will receive friends for one hour prior to service at the church. Interment will be in Morris Chapel Cemetery.
Mrs. Carroll, who died Wednesday, November 29, 2023, at her residence, was born February 7, 1927, in Alabama to Lois R. Hitt and Rossie Irene Morris Hitt. She was preceded in death by her husband, Marcus Carroll; parents; son-in-law, Wilburn King; three brothers, Lloyd Hitt (Olean), Bobby Hitt (Bertie), and Edward Hitt; two sisters, Marjorie Parker (Aaron) and Dorothy Parker (Virgil); brother-in-law, Dwain Spears; three grandchildren, Jeremy Carroll, Katie Carroll, and Cinda Carroll, two great granchildren, Nora James Parker and Charles Stewart Carroll. She enjoyed sewing, working with flowers in her yard, and her church family at Mount View Baptist Church. Ruth was a WMU leader and Sunday School teacher for many years.
She is survived by her son, Dennis Carroll (Delores); two daughters, Carolyn Anderson (Jimmie) and Janice King; two sisters, Mary Lee Hazle (Don) and Alice Hitt; and four grandchildren, Devlon Carroll, Jimmy Anderson (Kathy), Donna Hood (Mark), and Tina Parker (Bart).
Pallbearers will be Zack Anderson, Craig Anderson, Jacob Hood, Andrew Hood, John Hood, and Marcus Carroll. Honorary pallbearers will be Alan Hood and Clayton Gosselin.
