Yuki Hill

Born in 1925 in Denver, Colorado to Japanese parents with two older sisters and a brother, Yuki Bando Hill passed just two days short of her 92nd birthday. She was an accomplished gardener and pattern maker as well as a devoted wife and loving mother. Yuki spent her formative years in Japan during World War II and worked as a secretary for General MacArthur's office where she met an American soldier, James "Bobby" Adams and moved back to the US. She gave birth to her only son, James in 1958 and lived as a soldier's wife in Germany. After a divorce, she married Charlie L. Hill and lived in New Mexico and Germany with James and he before settling in Lithia Springs, Georgia in 1968.

Upon returning to the States, Yuki changed her profession and began working in the garment industry. She advanced from sewing machine operator to seamstress to pattern maker at Shirley of Atlanta. Yuki and Charlie worked their land with amazing vegetable and flower gardens and fruit trees. They loved their many dogs and tended chickens to have fresh eggs. In her retirement, Yuki enjoyed Japanese cooking, canning her own fruits and vegetables, sewing her own clothes, attending all kinds of exercise classes at Gold's Gym, and going to church. She made most of her own, and many of her only granddaughter's, clothes; including a beautiful red wool coat with a fur collar. She made several trips back to Japan to visit family, most recently in 2014 when she traveled with her son's family and was treated with the greatest respect and adulation by her extended family in reunions across Japan. She and Charlie moved to Winnwood Retirement Community in January 2017 where she continued to enjoy working out, going out for lunches, and meeting lots of new friends. She will be greatly missed. She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Charlie L. Hill; her son, James Taylor Hill; daughter-in-law Julie Hill; granddaughter Clarice Taylor Hill; and sisters Midori Sakai and Kazuko
Gotada of Japan.