Paul F. Hillman

Lance,

We sure miss Paul and our trips to Rathburns. We stayed with Paul on many of our trips back to Hudson Fall to visit my mother. My mother and Paul were cousins. My grandfather was born on the farm in Greenwich not far from the farm where Paul was born and raised.

We enjoyed having Paul visit us in Texas. When he was here I took him to Houston for his Fourth Army division reunion. I got to meet many of his old Army friends.

Paul sure liked his cousins. He...

Lance & family,
Like many, I could write a Book on Paul Hillman experiences. I have never met anyone with such a zest for life. I had the pleasure of working with your Father during my years with Agway Petroleum and in contact with him for many years after. I would never know when a Motor Coach would pull in the driveway and he would hop out with the usal greeting, "Got time for Dinner?" It was always a special time to be with Paul from the Halls of the Legislature to a casual meeting....

Lance & Family:
So sorry about your Dad's passing, but I doubt anyone could have lived a more full life.
He was amazing and a contemporary of my father, Dar Leland, who passed away at a young 97.
You took us out to lunch when they were about 92 and your Dad could run circles around mine at that time, and after lunch he was going to drive his RV down south somewhere.
He was a great and wonderful man, and I wish I had his energy.
My family and I have you in our thoughts and...

Lance & Family,
Sorry to hear about your father. My father Raymond Dunham was a cousin of his (his grandmother was Sarah E. Hillman). Though I never had the pleasure of meeting your father my sister & I feel like we knew him from our genealogy work & the many newspaper articles about his remarkable life & military service. I had just written to him before Christmas & was pleased to receive his holiday newsletter in reply.
Donna (Dunham) Hawks & Dale (Dunham) Gaa

Lance, Judy and family,
Both my parents talked lovingly about your Dad and your Mom, now they are together again. I'm sure my Dad, Beecher H. Baker, is very happy to have him to talk to again.

I knew Mr. Hillman for less than two weeks when I came up to New York to visit family. My grandmother was at Fort Hudson for rehab and I met him the first night. Every day that I visited my grandmother, he came around to speak with me and whomever I was with. I enjoyed the stories he shared with me regarding his time in the military, and the progression of his jobs; I loved hearing about how he hand delivered milk in 1914. He even told me how he remembered fuel costing 30 cents/gallon and how...

Lance Hillman and the entire Hillman family, we send our condolences. He is a great man, a great patriot and truly a gentlemen, a visionary with compassion for humanity, a person who will be missed by many. He did inspire and support many people in their quest of a good life. I am sending you this message from a family whose patriarch once worked for Paul, Albert, Frank, Niles & Burnett as probably the first truck driver they ever had going over the road. That man's name is Ray F....

deepley sorry for your fathers passing he will be missed dearly from the parot family

Please accept my deepest sympathies on your loss. Mr. Hillman was a wonderful man, I will miss his sense of humor and his stories.