Obit – Mr. Robey Hiett
Mr. Robey Hiett age 95 of the Pleasant Shade Community died peacefully with his wife and sons at his side at the family’s Pleasant Shade Highway farm home. He was pronounced deceased at 6:24 a.m. Saturday morning August 3, 2024 by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston who had just begun on Wednesday providing assistance to the family.
Mr. Hiett was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where his funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon August 7th with Eld. Gerald Ragland and Mr. Hiett’s pastor, Eld. Scott Rigsby officiating. Following the 3 p.m. funeral services burial was in the Nixon-Hiett family plot at the Sanderson Cemetery in the Pleasant Shade Community.
The son of the late Joseph Pickett Hiett Jr. who died July 29, 1952 at the age of 63 and Easter Mae Roberts Hiett who died December 18, 2008 at the age of 102, he was born Robey Key Hiett in the Monoville Community on February 15, 1929 and was one of four children, three sons and a daughter.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Robbie Joe “Red” Hiett who died at the age of 50 on June 24, 1982.
In Franklin, Kentucky on November 19, 1949 he was united in marriage to Pleasant Shade Community native, longtime Citizens Bank vice-president, Lyla Joyce Nixon who retired from banking in 2010 with a forty nine and a half year banking career.
The Hiett’s were preceded in death by a daughter-in-law, Joe’s wife, Joyce Dale Kittrell Hiett who died at the age of 63 on June 1, 2020.
Mr. Hiett was saved at the age of 21 on July 10, 1950 at a revival meeting at the Russell Hill Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church and joined the Sanderson Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church that same month.
At the time of his death he was a member of the Pleasant Shade Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church where he had moved his membership from Sanderson on November 21, 2004.
He was a retired truck driver for the former William Hayes Lines in Lebanon, having retired in 1982. After retirement he raised cattle on the family farm and enjoyed life with his family.
He proudly served our country with the United States Army during the Korean War. He was inducted in Nashville on December 11, 1952 and was honorably discharged with the rank of Corporal at the Fort George G. Meade Maryland army installation on December 10, 1954.
During his military commitment he was assigned to the Headquarters Battery 14th Aviation Battalion based in Fort Myer, Virginia.
For his unwavering service he was awarded the Good Conduct Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.
Surviving in addition to his wife Joyce of almost seventy five years are their two sons, Carthage Fire Chief Joe Hiett, retired T.D.O.T. Operation Specialist II, Jeff Hiett and wife Melanie West Hiett of the Pleasant Shade Community; three grandsons, John Hiett and wife Jennifer of Carthage, Jason Hiett and wife Brittany of the Walter Hill Community, Greg Hiett and wife Cheryl of the Pleasant Shade Community; sister, Betty Neal Hiett Dias of the Dixon Springs Community; brother, Eld. Bobby Ray Hiett of Hartsville; six great-grandchildren, Lillian, Cayden, Everett, Colton, Gunnar, and Lyla.
The Hiett family has requested memorials to the Sanderson Cemetery Mowing Fund.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
