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Hobby
Tilley
June 10, 1943 – December 15, 2021
Hobby Tilley, age 78, of Ethelsville, AL passed away December 15, 2021 at Aliceville Manor Nursing Home. Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Saturday, December 18, 2021 at Skelton Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Redus Hall officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Methodist Church Cemetery in Ethelsville with Skelton Funeral Home of Reform directing. Visitation will be one hour prior and immediately following the service at the funeral home.
He was preceded in death by his son, Gary Tilley; his parents and brother, Jackie Tilley.
Survivors include his wife of 40 years, Patsy Tilley; sons, Shane Tilley (Jessica), Robby Tilley (Jennifer) and Barry Tilley (Wanda); daughter-in-law, Donna Tilley; brother, Carvin Tilley, Jr. (Sue) and three grandchildren, Kaitlynn Wheeler (Alex), Jordan Tilley and Ashlyn Tilley.
Hobby was born June 10, 1943 in Pickens County, Alabama to the late Lanier Tilley and Sarah Richardson Tilley. He was a member of First Free Will Baptist Church of Ethelsville and a retired employee of Eka Nobel in Columbus, MS.
Pallbearers will be Rodney Moore, Steve Moore, Lee Pannell, Steve Tilley, Gerald McGahey and Alex Wheeler.
Honorary Pallbearers are all friends at Eka Nobel, Billy Holley, Bill Strickland, Joe Barnes, Gerald Dodds, James Shepherd and Billy Scarbrough.
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials to St Jude Children's Hospital Memorial Giving, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 or Forest Methodist Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Mark Saunders, 973 Robin Road, Ethelsville, AL 35461.
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