Sharon L. Hilligoss
Sharon L. Hilligoss, 81 of rural Tipton County died at 10:17 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at her home. She was born on April 2, 1939 in Louisville to Bodine & Beulah (Longest) Pixley. Sharon married John F. Hilligoss on December 10, 1960 and he preceded her in death on October 25, 2007. They lived in Kokomo for eight years and Sharpsville for 22 years.
Sharon was an EMT and she and John helped organize the Sharpsville Community Ambulance Service and lead it as President. She was one of their original EMT’s and also volunteered as such at the Tipton County Pork Festival. Sharon had also worked on the ambulance at Leatherman-Morris Funeral Home and was the local coordinator for Weight Watchers. She had attended un-denominational Christian churches.
Sharon is survived by three sons, John Hilligoss II and wife Emily, Bartlett, Tennessee, Mark Hilligoss and wife Julie D., Sharpsville and David Hilligoss and wife Julie M., Kokomo; two sisters, Karen Stallings and husband Jack, Salem, Indiana and Melody Garrett and husband Carl, Memphis, Tennessee.
She is also survived by 11 grandchildren, Jessica Smith, Nathan Hilligoss, Alyssa Myers, Andrea Hilligoss, Arika Hilligoss, Jeffrey Hilligoss, Alaina Hilligoss, Rachel Hilligoss, Devin Hilligoss, Travis Hilligoss and Brandon Hilligoss; five great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brother, Bodine Pixley II, and a grandson, Austin Mark Hilligoss.
Friends are invited to pay their respects to Sharon’s family with a drive-thru visitation honoring Sharon at Young-Nichols Funeral Home on Sunday, April 26 from 12:00 Noon – 1:00 p.m. Visitors will remain in their cars but be able to talk to Sharon’s family members.
A private family funeral will follow the visitation with Kevin Naillieux and Jeff Thayer presiding. Everyone is invited to watch the funeral at 2:00 p.m. Sunday live streamed on Facebook by following the link on Sharon’s obituary page at www.young-nichols.com where condolences for the family may also be left. Burial will be in Normanda Cemetery.
Sharon’s family is very thankful for the wonderful care provided by Paradigm Hospice.
Memorial contributions in Sharon’s honor may be made to the Dementia Society of America, PO Box 600, Doylestown, Pennsylvania,18901 or Paradigm Health, 8904 Bash Street Suite B, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46256.
Sending prayers to your family. Sharon was a very good friend to our mom, Kay Brewer.
Prayers for the family,
A wonderful lady and dear friend
Sending love and prayers to the family. Heaven gained a beautiful soul. Oir heaets are with yiu all.
We loved Sharon and her quiet, gentle spirit.
We will miss her presence in our fellowship meetings, but thankful she’s now resting in God’s promises.
Our love and sympathy to you all. You are in our thoughts and prayers. Much love from the Perry family from New Zealand
So sorry for your loss. I knew both John and Sharon. John used to combine our corn and beans.
Such a wonderful couple.
So sorry for your loss. Keeping you in my prayers.
Sharon had a love for many but her love for God surpassed them all, This is what made her the person she was. We cannot mourn that she now has the privilege of being with that one she loves.
Please accept our deepest condolences. Prayers of peace
Sam & Shanna Humphries
New Orleans, LA
Thinking about you all at this difficult time. Much love to all.
we send our prayers to the family ,God pick a rose today.
Mark – So sorry to hear of the loss of your mother.
Our sympathies to Sharon’s family.
So sorry for your loss. Sharon was a sweet & kind lady.
There are some people that always make you feel special. Sharon was one of those people.
Our deepest sympathy and love to John, Mark, David and their families.
A loved friend and sister who will be greatly missed.
Thankful for her example and that she lived her life, preparing for this day.
Sharon was a very special sister (in law). Jesus’ words about a woman who expressed her care for Him, was “she has done what she could”. The same can be said of Sharon.
Deepest condolences to your family.
Sharon was a very special sister (in law). Jesus’words concerning a woman who expressed love and care for Him was’She has done what she could’. This can be said for Sharon also.
My thoughts are with Sharon’s family at this time.I appreciated her life and Godly example.
I am so sorry for your loss. May your have comfort onyour heats that only God can give.
Much love to Sharon’s family. She was a dear, bright, sweet soul. I loved being in her kitchen with her, chatting and helping with whatever she was doing.
We appreciated so much Sharon’s kind and loving spirit.
Ina Browning April 25 2020
Loving memories
Thoughts of love to family .
Dear family of Sharon
Many fond memories go back to childhood days and beyond of Sharon and the Pixley’s. Especially of times at Shoals then later in the recuped chicken house with the Croft girls at Hillsboro. Lots of laughs.
I remember Sharon as a kind caring person who loved the Lord.
With care
Oleva Cook Oman
Dearest Sharon and I have known each other since childhood . Born a day apart in April ,we were like sisters. I have many memories of her. Aunt Beulah and Uncle Bodine at their family home. My prayers and blessings go with her on her final journey home. With love to Karen, Melody, her sons and wonderful family.
Thankful to remember Sharon’s kind and caring spirit. Although we didn’t see Sharon frequently, her care for all of us stood out when we were students at Purdue. How fitting to be reminded that she worked as an EMT. Our thoughts go to John, Mark, David and all the family today. We wish them each comfort in good memories and the Godly influence left behind.
Our thoughts are with you all today as you are passing through this time.
Sending our love and condolences to John, Mark, and David and their families at this very difficult time. We have many wonderful memories of times spent in their home. May Sharon’s example help her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to continue to make the choices that will help them to find the same rest and peace that Sharon is able to enjoy.
Sorry for your loss
One of our favorite people
Good memories of Sharron and John and Bodine and Melody and Karen
So very beautiful to be part of your family
My mom loved you so much
Thinking of you today
Thanks for the Call Karen
I know it’s a hard time for a funeral
At this time
Love you all
Dan and Charlotte Parker
Sharon was a good example in her quiet
ways , loving and keeping a thankful heart for her faith in Jesus that carried her thru the years.
She will be missed but it’s victory won.
I know it isn’t easy; but I know from my own like experience that you are now thankful for the ‘Home-Call’ of your mother, Mark. Thankful for her faithful daily life’s example before you during her ‘days-of-preparation’ learning how to live wholeheartedly FOR tor the Lord & His Son, here in this life; that she might now begin to live WITH the Lord and His Son throughout the countless ages of Eternity to come. I speak from experience when I say that in future days that the Lord grants unto you the ‘breath-of-life’ that you will be thankful for the continuance of her testimony and influence upon you. But it will be different from here on: because it will come to you from the ‘Other-Shore’-in the presence of God and His Son.
I graduated with Sharon from Silver Creek High School. She was a kind gentle classmate. We have kept in touch all these years. We graduated in 1957. I loved her graduation picture in gown. Thank you so much for all the care and love you shared for her. We had good talks on the phone . We will miss her. A grand lady who loved the Lord. Pat Dean Seymour, classmate