Services for Amel will be held on Monday, January 8, 2018 at 3:00 p.m., in the Chapel of Hixson Brothers Alexandria with Brother Wade Jackson and Brother Ellis Hines officiating.
The family requests that visitation be observed at Hixson Brothers Alexandria on Monday from 10:00 a.m. until time of service at 3:00 p.m. on that day. Burial will follow at Campbell Creek Cemetery in Sharp, LA.
Amel, aged 80, entered eternal rest on Friday, January 5, 2018 in his home. He was a native and lifelong resident of Lena, LA and was a retired Cattle Farmer. He loved his family and friends with the Lilton Nugent and Mike Coutee families being much more like family than friends.
Amel is preceded in death by his father, William Tinsley Hilger; mother, Clara Muriel Hilger; brother , William T. Hilger, II and son-in-law, Joseph Lodridge.
Those left to cherish his memory are his wife of 59 years, Sandy Goodman Hilger of Lena; children: Jimmy (Connie) Hilger of Zimmerman, Jill (Woody) Wood of Lena, Mickey (Cindy) Hilger of Zimmerman, and Amel Anne Lodridge of Zimmerman; grandchildren: Courtney (Garon) Gaspard, Tid (Rebecca) Hilger, Kayla Hilger, Taylor Hilger, Sandra Wood, Summer Wood, Jaime Lodridge, and Amel A. Lodridge; great grandchildren: Kipton Gaspard, Kolton Gaspard, and Tinsley Hilger; nephews: Brandt Hilger and Chad Hilger along with a host of family and friends.
Pallbearers will be Tid Hilger, Taylor Hilger, Garon Gaspard, Danny Livingston, Eric Theils, Bob Lodridge, and Amel A. Lodridge.
Honorary pallbearers will be Tyrone Battles, Bill Nugent, William Watkins, Mike Coutee, Roy Lodridge, Cecil Smith, Larry Parker, Ken Harris, Chuck Hilger, and Ronnie Morris.
Our family wants to give a special thank you to Compassionate Care Hospice staff who took such special care of him and to good friends Wanda Norris and Tom Juneau who brightened his day when we could not be with him.
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