Sedera Louise (Williams) Hines

Sedera Louise Williams Hines was born in Madison Arkansas on August 13, 1928 to

Clint and Ruthie Williams.  Sedera was the third child in a family of five girls (Gussie,

Armenthia and twins Marilyn and Carolyn).  She professed her Faith in Christ at an

early age of ten at the Madison Light Baptist Church under the Pastorship of Rev. W.L.

Purifoy, who showed a great love for both children and adults alike.  Sedera’s grandmother

Lila and her parents saw to it that she and her siblings were very involved in church

activities.  The entire family, mother, father and children sang in the choir.  Sedera also

Served in various other capacities which included, Sunday school teacher, choir, BTU,

as well as coaching children for their role in plays and other church programs.

Sedera graduated from Lincoln High School in Forrest City, Arkansas where she and

her sisters attended.  She then went on to junior college at Dunbar Junior College in

Little Rock, Arkansas.  Upon her graduation, she enrolled in AM&N now the University

of Arkansas at Pine Bluff where she received her Bachelor’s degree became a member of

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated.  After receiving her Bachelor’s degree, Sedera and her

sister Armenthia both taught elementary school in Blytheville, Arkansas for a number of years.

Sedera also had the experience of teaching grades 1 through 6 in a one-room School

House for several years. This required a great deal of patience and a lot of planning; both

of which were her forte. This was a common practice in the South since schools were 

scarce in some areas.  Sedera was also selected to serve as a Principal during her tenure.  She

loved children and was committed to doing whatever she could to help foster their education.

Sedera took advantage of an opportunity to relocate to New York City where her

oldest sister Gussie resided.  She lived with her sister and family for a short time,

at the delight of her niece Jackie and nephew David until she found her own place.

Sedera enrolled in Fordham University, Bronx, New and worked part-time at

Peck and Peck.  Like her sisters, she was a “shop-a-holic” so Peck and Peck was

the ideal place for her to work.   After receiving her Master’s Degree in Social

Science, she began her career as a licensed Social Worker at the Department of

Social Services in New York.  Her love of people and her desire to see them

become self-sufficient was what made her so good at what she did and the reason

she loved her job.  Sedera met her future husband, Eldred who also worked at the

Department of Social Service at an event when he asked her to dance the Twist.

After dating for a year, they got married on the day after Christmas on

December 26, 1964 at Convent Avenue Baptist Church where she was an

active member.  Sedera and Eldred resided in the Bronx until they purchased

their home in Goshen, New York.  Their love of travel took them to many

different places including several of the Caribbean Islands, Canada, Hawaii,

North Carolina, Martha’s Vineyards, California, Florida, New Orleans, Texas,        

Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia and back home to Arkansas for many fun filled

family reunions with her sisters and their families, just to name a few places.  Sedera

loved people.  She was a “People Pleaser” and she firmly believed that there was good

 in everyone, even when others could not see it.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Ruthie and Clint Williams, sisters Gussie,

Armenthia and Marilyn.

She leaves to mourn her passing and to cherish her memory her beloved Husband and

Caretaker, Eldred Hines, Sister Carolyn Deal, 3 nieces Jacqueline Green, Karen Deal,

Angela Holland (James), 1 nephew Kevin Foster (Angela) God Daughter/Grand Niece

Cheryl Green, 2 grand nephews, Darryl Green and Dalton Foster and 1 great-grand

Nephew Christian Green, Primary Nurse, Michelle Montanye, Kerna Amber and

Sister Ann Daley, Pastor of Pastoral Care, Will Care Aides, Hospice of Orange County

Cheryl Campbell and Dorothy Mestyank, Special friends and neighbors Michael &

Christine Brady and a host of cousins and close friends.

Sorrowfully Submitted,

The Family

A visitation for family and friends will be held from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM Tuesday, May 21st at Cornelius, Dodd & Connell Funeral Home, 26 Grove St. Middletown, NY. Funeral Services will begin t 11:00 AM following the visitation.

Interment will take place at 10:00 AM Wednesday, May 22nd at the Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery, 111 Craigville Road, Goshen, NY.

 Arrangements have been entrusted to Cornelius, Dodd & Connell Funeral Home, Middletown, NY. 

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