(1915 – 2009) Alma Holladay was born on November 19, 1915, in Chambers County, Alabama, to the farm family of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Holladay of West Point. She received a B.S. degree in Math and Science in 1938 from Auburn University and was certified in Home Economics...

(1905 – 1997) Dorothy Hixson began life in Pikeville, Tennessee, on December 23, 1905. She was the daughter of Eschal McKinney Hixson and Lola Ault Hixson. Her family moved to Hale County, Alabama, in 1913, where they lived on a plantation. Miss Hixson graduated from...

(1904 – 1997) When William Bailey (W.B.) Hill made his way to Tuskegee as a young teenager to study agriculture under George Washington Carver, no one knew that in 1988 he would receive the prestigious George Washington Carver Public Service Hall of Fame Award. With...

(1916 – 2004) Helen Florence Barnes Hill was born in the small town of Plantersville in Dallas County, Alabama. She graduated from Dallas County High in 1935. Majoring in vocational home economics with a minor in science, she graduated from Alabama College in...

(1886 – 1960) Benjamin Franklin Hill was born on September 30, 1886, in Hazelhurst, Mississippi. He was born to a poor farming family and decided early in life that he was going to get a proper education and learn all he could about agriculture so that he could lend a...

(1914 – 2000) Mrs. Julia Ruth Hester Hicks, affectionately known as “Miss Judy,” began working part-time in the County Agent’s office in Chilton County during high school. She assumed the permanent secretarial position in 1952 after the death of her husband....