SIKESTON, Mo. -- Gene Foster Hill, 82, of Sikeston died Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005, Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

He was born Feb. 19, 1923, at Bloomfield, Mo., son of Claude Hill and Jessie Sifford Hill Yeakey.

He and Maxine Shelby were married Oct. 30, 1943, at Sikeston.

Hill was a truck driver for Valley Steel Corp. for 23 years. He had also been a farmer and worked as a supervisor for the University of Missouri Extension experimental farm south of Sikeston. He was a member of Teamsters Local 688 of St. Louis.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Jimmy Mac Hill of Nunnelly, Tenn.; two daughters, Charlotte Slavings of Benton, Mo., Sharon Sue Hill of Sikeston; a brother, Ernest Yeakey of Austin, Texas; six grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren;

He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

Friends may call at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Bob Medlock officiating. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery at Sikeston.