Mickey Hill passed away in Holdenville on Monday, June 2, 2014, at the age of 71 years.

Mickey was the son of Earnest Andrew Hill & Olive Alene (Sexton) Hill, born on October 13, 1942, in Holdenville, Oklahoma, where he was brought up and attended schools. He attended a VoTech school also, and learned Upholstery. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served from August, 1962 through June, 1965.

Mickey made his home in Holdenville for nearly all his adult life. He was a man of many talents, creative and artistic, and at the same time a very practical man, blessed with various abilities for making a living. He was usually resourceful and fortunate enough to combine the two, and often enjoyed working at his hobbies, or taking his hobbies to work. He loved to cook, and over the years served up a lot of meals at his own Corner Café located in the historic First National Bank building at the corner of Main & Broadway, at his Lantern Restaurant on East Highway, and working in the kitchen of June's Old Tyme Diner. He loved oil painting, woodworking and all kinds of arts and crafts, and worked for a while out of his own Hobby Shop on North Hinckley Street. Upholstery was his favorite thing, and he enjoyed several years working for Elvie & Opal Crumm at the Holdenville Mattress Factory, and now and then covering a piece of furniture for friends or for himself. He was an award-winning photographer and might have made a decent living at it, but was in it mostly for fun. He liked to paint pictures of fishing scenes, but real fishing was his favorite pastime and involved nothing but loafing. He took piano lessons from Mrs. Ruth Orr, and learned to play fairly well. He had the gift of a dry, hilarious and indestructible sense of humor. He was much loved and will be sorely missed. But not long before he left this world, he startled his daughter by raising his right arm straight up and waving happily at someone she couldn't see. When Tammy asked who he was waving at, Mickey told her it was Elvie Crumm, which is a pretty good sign of a celestial upholstery job waiting for him in Heaven.

Mickey is preceded in death by his mother, Alene Stuckey, in 2011, and stepfather, Earl Stuckey, in 1999; his father, Andy Hill, killed in World War II; his wife, Bettye Hill; two brothers, Bill Stuckey and Jerry Stuckey.

He is survived by his daughter Tammy Hill Mongold and husband Kelly, of Drummond, and, as Mickey called her, his Indian Daughter, Cheryl Buck; his first wife and mother of his daughter, Patricia Bridges; two grandchildren, Jason Orr and wife Amber, and Alex Mongold; three great grandchildren: Tyler Orr, Logan Orr, and Makayla Orr; three siblings: Mike Stuckey and wife June, Judy Hunter, JoAnn Wallace; nieces and nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles, other family members, and many friends.

Graveside services will be held and Mickey will be laid to rest in the Holdenville Cemetery at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, June 6, 2014. Rev. Earl Scroggins is the officiating minister.

Services are under direction of Fisher Funeral Home of Holdenville.