EARL CLIFFORD "JOHNNY" BILLS, age 93, Cynthiana, died Friday, August 5, 2016 at Cedar Ridge Health Campus. Born in Bourbon County, September 10, 1922 to the late James Wilson and Pearl Martin Laytart Bills, he was a farmer, carpenter, an electrician, a builder and owned rental property. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by, his wife, Staddie Alice Soard Bills; three brothers, Clyde Bills, Garland Bills and George Bills; two sisters, Christine Holloway and Mary Bills Garrison and a grandson, Earl Travis Bills.
He is survived by three sons, Homer Earl (Doris) Bills, James Thomas Bills and Richard Wilson Bills, all of Harrison County; five grandchildren, Tina Bills Ecklar, Tonya Bills Dixon, Melody Bills Hubbard, Pamela Bills Hubbard and Autumn Bills Cochran; ten great grandchildren and 2 great great-granddaughters.
A memorial service will be conducted 2:00 P.M. Sunday at Ware Funeral Home by Rev. Rick Snyder with visitation at noon. Burial will be in Oddville United Methodist Church Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Bluegrass, 1317 U.S. Highway 62 East, Cynthiana, Kentucky 41031.
*~*~SO GOD MADE A FARMER*~*~*
By: Paul Harvey
"And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board"
-- so God made a Farmer.
"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark."
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says that he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does"
-- so God made a Farmer."
He is survived by three sons, Homer Earl (Doris) Bills, James Thomas Bills and Richard Wilson Bills, all of Harrison County; five grandchildren, Tina Bills Ecklar, Tonya Bills Dixon, Melody Bills Hubbard, Pamela Bills Hubbard and Autumn Bills Cochran; ten great grandchildren and 2 great great-granddaughters.
A memorial service will be conducted 2:00 P.M. Sunday at Ware Funeral Home by Rev. Rick Snyder with visitation at noon. Burial will be in Oddville United Methodist Church Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Bluegrass, 1317 U.S. Highway 62 East, Cynthiana, Kentucky 41031.
*~*~SO GOD MADE A FARMER*~*~*
By: Paul Harvey
"And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board"
-- so God made a Farmer.
"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark."
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says that he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does"
-- so God made a Farmer."
EARL CLIFFORD "JOHNNY" BILLS, age 93, Cynthiana, died Friday, August 5, 2016 at Cedar Ridge Health Campus. Born in Bourbon County, September 10, 1922 to the late James Wilson and Pearl Martin Laytart Bills, he was a farmer, carpenter, an electrician, a builder and owned rental property. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by, his wife, Staddie Alice Soard Bills; three brothers, Clyde Bills, Garland Bills and George Bills; two sisters, Christine Holloway and Mary Bills Garrison and a grandson, Earl Travis Bills.
He is survived by three sons, Homer Earl (Doris) Bills, James Thomas Bills and Richard Wilson Bills, all of Harrison County; five grandchildren, Tina Bills Ecklar, Tonya Bills Dixon, Melody Bills Hubbard, Pamela Bills Hubbard and Autumn Bills Cochran; ten great grandchildren and 2 great great-granddaughters.
A memorial service will be conducted 2:00 P.M. Sunday at Ware Funeral Home by Rev. Rick Snyder with visitation at noon. Burial will be in Oddville United Methodist Church Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Bluegrass, 1317 U.S. Highway 62 East, Cynthiana, Kentucky 41031.
*~*~SO GOD MADE A FARMER*~*~*
By: Paul Harvey
"And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board"
-- so God made a Farmer.
"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark."
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says that he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does"
-- so God made a Farmer."
He is survived by three sons, Homer Earl (Doris) Bills, James Thomas Bills and Richard Wilson Bills, all of Harrison County; five grandchildren, Tina Bills Ecklar, Tonya Bills Dixon, Melody Bills Hubbard, Pamela Bills Hubbard and Autumn Bills Cochran; ten great grandchildren and 2 great great-granddaughters.
A memorial service will be conducted 2:00 P.M. Sunday at Ware Funeral Home by Rev. Rick Snyder with visitation at noon. Burial will be in Oddville United Methodist Church Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Bluegrass, 1317 U.S. Highway 62 East, Cynthiana, Kentucky 41031.
*~*~SO GOD MADE A FARMER*~*~*
By: Paul Harvey
"And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board"
-- so God made a Farmer.
"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours"
-- so God made a Farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place
-- so God made a Farmer.
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark."
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says that he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does"
-- so God made a Farmer."
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