Rita M. Guthrie Hill

Rita M. Guthrie Hill, 81, of Harkers Island, died Saturday, June 27­, 2020, at Vidant Medical Center in Tarboro, NC.

Her funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at Munden Funeral Home in Morehead City, officiated by Pastor Manley Rose Jr. Interment will follow at Vergie Mae Cemetery on Harkers Island. Friends are welcome to attend the service. For those unable to attend, the family invites you to view the webcasting of the service through Rita Hill’s obituary page on Munden Funeral Home’s website. In keeping with the CDC guidelines pertaining to the Coronavirus, those who are ill or at-risk (elderly, immune-compromised) are encouraged to stay home. Additionally, there will be a limit to the number of people in the building at one time, as well, those who attend will be asked to bring and wear a protective mask. Help us honor the family while practicing safe measures. Friends are also encouraged to leave words of comfort to the family through the website.

Mrs. Hill was born and raised on Harkers Island and graduated from Smyrna High School. She was a constant caregiver that always thought of others before herself. She was a nurse’s aid with Morehead City Hospital when she was not traveling the world in support of her husband’s military career. She loved the lord and was an active member of Refuge Fellowship Church. Rita will be remembered for her cooking and giving spirit. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was loved by all who knew her. Her son has expressed his appreciation for the way that she cared for him and he  was more than willing to give the same level of care as she grew older.

She is survived by her son, William Everett Hill of the home; former daughter-in-law and grandchildren’s mother, Sharon Dillard Willis; grandchildren, Brandon Hill and fiancé Megan Lewis, Nicole Lowery and husband Frankie and Crystal Dillard Brewington; great grandchildren, Elijah Brewington, Mariah Brewington, Riley Hill, Levi Lowery and Liam Lowery.

She died a mere three months following her Husband, William Hill, after almost sixty years of marriage. She is also preceded in death by her parents, Willie and Carrie Guthrie; sisters, Elva Irvine, Estelle Fulcher, Muriel Lee Salter; twin brother, Jack Guthrie, and brothers, Donald Guthrie, and Leslie “Buddy” Guthrie.

The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at Munden Funeral Home

Flowers are welcome.

Family and friends are welcome to submit online condolences at www.mundenfuneralhome.net

Arrangements by Munden Funeral Home and Crematory in Morehead City, NC.