{"id":795302,"date":"2019-04-29T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/obituary-billie-sharon-foster-hiers\/"},"modified":"2019-04-29T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:44:00","slug":"obituary-billie-sharon-foster-hiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/obituary-billie-sharon-foster-hiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Billie Sharon (Foster) Hiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"465\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HiersObit-SDN-043019.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HiersObit-SDN-043019.jpg 465w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HiersObit-SDN-043019-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">Billie Sharon (Foster) Hiers<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\">Dec. 16, 1939 \u2014 April 28, 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Billie Sharon (Foster) Hiers, 79, of Troy, Ohio, passed away on Sunday, April 28, in the hospice in-patient unit at UVMC as a result of complications following surgery seven weeks ago. She was born Dec. 16, 1939, in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, to Hazel Burdette and William Thomason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She was a former resident of Richmond and Elkhart, Indiana, and she and Lucky split their time between Dillon, Colorado, and Redington Shores, Florida, during their 23-year marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Billie was preceded in death by her husband Ludwick \u201cLucky\u201d Hiers, as well as her parents. She is survived by her four children: Robin (Scott) Oda of Troy; Jennifer (Mark) Hill of Dillon, Colorado; Rick Foster and Chantel deMier of LaQuinta, California; and David (Maryann) Foster of Riverton, New Jersey; her grandchildren: Kelli (Joe) Spellman, Maggie (Alex) Lyon, Tyler (Grace) Oda, Spenser and Elliott Hill, Clayton and Maria Foster, Joshua, Zoe, Nadia, Gabriel and Shane Foster; one great-grandson, Joshua Spellman and great-grandbaby Oda (due in September).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She is also survived by her brothers, Jim (Dolores) Morris of Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, and Rodger (Carolyn) Morris of Richmond, Kentucky, and her sister, Lisa (Ronald) Hounshell of Shelbyville, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The family will receive friends from 5\u20137 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, at Baird Funeral Home, Troy, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The family will also receive friends and extended family on Saturday, May 4, 2019, from 10\u201311:30 a.m. at Cox Funeral Home, Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. Services will follow at 11:30 a.m. at the funeral home, with interment in Green Hill Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Miami County, P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH, 45373, or to CaringBridge.org, a wonderful communication support site for families experiencing a health crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/obituaries\/obituary-billie-sharon-foster-hiers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Sharon (Foster) Hiers Dec. 16, 1939 \u2014 April 28, 2019 Billie Sharon (Foster) Hiers, 79, of Troy, Ohio, passed away on Sunday, April 28, in the hospice in-patient unit at UVMC as a result of complications following surgery seven weeks ago. She was born Dec. 16, 1939, in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, to Hazel Burdette [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:26:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}