ROLLING FORK — Funeral services for Elizabeth L. “Sis” Gary Powers Hill will be held Friday, Dec. 9, at 10 a.m. at Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church in Rolling Fork. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. in the church rectory.

Mrs. Hill died Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, at St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital following a brief illness. Sis was born April 20, 1917, in Yazoo City to Allen Woods “Bunk” Gary and Mattie Nolan Gary. She attended elementary school in Valley Park and Yazoo City and later graduated at Cary School.

In 1937, she and Spencer B. Powers were married at the Powers family home in Cary. In the early years of their marriage, they lived in Sardis and Vicksburg. During the war years, they lived for a time in New York City while Spencer was involved with the Manhattan Project. After the war she and Spencer and their children lived on the family farm in Cary until Spencer’s death in 1972.

Sis was an ardent supporter of both Cary School and Rolling Fork High School athletic programs. She was also an avid bridge player and golfer in several Delta towns and hit a hole-in-one at the Red Apple Inn and Country Club in Heber Springs, Ark.

During the 1970s, she lived for a time in Saudi Arabia with her second husband, Ross C. Hill. Later, they returned to live in Rolling Fork. She was a member of Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church and served on the altar guild for a number of years.

Sis lived at St. Catherine’s Village in Madison for the last 10 years and was well-known as a competitive Wii bowler and as a source of information on world and sports events. She will be missed by the St. Catherine’s staff and residents.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, Spencer Byrd Powers Sr. and Ross C. Hill; her son, Spencer Byrd Powers Jr.; and her siblings, A.W. Gary Jr. and Mildred “Monk” Gary Dawson.

She is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Anne Powers Reisinger and husband Steve of Blacksburg, Va.; a son, David Gary Powers and wife Bettie Cox of Hattiesburg; and four stepdaughters, Barbara H. Bowers, Lynn Hill, Gail H. Mehle and Ann H. Sager.

Her grandchildren are Laura Watts of Houston, Texas, Stephanie Kidwell of Christiansburg, Va., Spencer Reisinger of Arlington, Va., Amanda Clay Powers of Starkville and Mitchell Powers of Blacksburg. Her great-grandchildren are Hansford D. Powers and Coretta Jane Powers of Blacksburg and Satya V. Reisinger of Arlington. Sis is also survived by many nieces and nephews and their children and her longtime friends and former neighbors in Cary and Rolling Fork.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Cary Cemetery, P.O. Box 333, Cary, MS 39054 or to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 50, Memphis, TN 38101.