Stella Christine Chapman (Tootsie) Hilton

In Loving Memory of Stella Christine Chapman (Tootsie) Hilton Stella Christine Chapman (Tootsie) Hilton, passed away in Riverview Nursing Home on March 19, 2005. She was a homemaker, mother and a faithful wife of 62 years of her late husband Curtis Melvin Hilton who preceded her in death in 2003. Born in Saltville, Smyth County, Virginia on October 1, 1921, she spent all of her adult life in Pearisburg, Virginia. She was the last of eleven children and was preceded in death by her father John Ross Chapman, Sr. and Elizabeth Jane Taylor Chapman. She was a member of the Anne S. Hoilman Sunday School Class while she attended the First United Methodist Church in Pearisburg for over sixty years. She also attended the First Church of God in Rich Creek while her son was the pastor. She had a reserved but outgoing personality and extended hospitality to family, friend, and neighbor. Over the years, she supported her church in many ways and always tried to do what was right and treat everybody fairly. She is survived by firstborn son Gerald W. Hilton and daughter-in-law Shirley of Narrows, Virginia, son Thomas W. Hilton of Pearisburg, and three grandchildren: Michael R. Hilton and wife Heather of Mineral, Virginia, Susan April Hilton Sawyer and husband Robert of Richmond, Virginia, and Andrew Scott Hilton and wife Kathy of Danville, Virginia. Also four great grandchildren; Robert Kenneth Sawyer III and David Hilton Sawyer of Richmond. Step-grand children Anthony Hubbard and Kayla Hubbard of Mineral. Friends and family are invited to the wake from 6 – 8pm Monday on March 21, 2005 at Givens Funeral Home in Pearisburg, Virginia. The funeral will be conducted at Givens Funeral Home on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 11:00am with Dr. Fred L. Austin and Rev. Clarence E. Dillon officiating with burial following at the Birchlawn Burial Park in front of the Mausoleum. The family has requested Memorial contributions for Bibles be made to The Gideons International in lieu of flowers. If you would like to send your condolences to the family via Givens Funeral Home, simply sign the Memorial Guestbook by clicking the link.  Your condolences will be printed out and given to the family.