Gloria A. Hill Williams

September 8, 1943 - April 8, 2020

Gloria A. Hill was born on September 8, 1943 to Willie Frank Hill, Sr. and Vonciel Hill in Oakfield, Georgia. She is the third of fourteen children. Gloria was active in the Civil Rights Movement and participated in the Albany Campaign (1961-1962) led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She often reminisced about this by stating that she was “ready to die” for human liberation. She graduated from Holley High, located in Sylvester, Georgia, in 1961, and left home in 1962 to attend nursing school in Petersburg, Virginia. Gloria graduated from nursing school in 1964 and married Freddie G. Williams, Sr. in this same year with whom she had six children. Gloria loved her career as an LPN. She was a nurse at a time when it was frowned upon for women to have a career and remained in the profession for more than 35 years primarily as a geriatric nurse. Her career spanned employment at hospitals and nursing homes in the state of New Jersey including Centrastate Hospital. Gloria was preceded in death by her father Willie Frank Hill, Sr. and her brother David Hill. Surviving her are her mom Vonciel Hill, and twelve remaining siblings, her children Patty D. Williams, Sophia Y. Williams, Fredericka Williams, Freddie G. Williams, Jr., Mark K. Williams, Dr. Hettie V. Williams, her three grandchildren, Ronnie J. Scott, Latrice Scott, and Brandy Huntley, as well as four great grandchildren. All services will be private. For online condolences, please visit Gloria's memorial page at www.bongarzonefuneralhome.com