Mark Allen Hill

Mark Allan Hill was made well and whole on June 6, 2021. Mark was born August 20, 1955 in Gainesville, Texas to Jarrell Edwin Hill and Sara Jo Stevens Hill. He grew up in Ardmore, Oklahoma sandwiched between two ornery and fun loving sisters, Dianne and Glenda. Mark was an athletic kid, especially talented at baseball, water skiing, and outrunning his sisters after making them good and mad.

Mark graduated from Oklahoma Christian College in 1977 with a degree in physical education and went on to coach high school baseball before settling into a career as a Certified Professional Landman in the oil and gas industry, where he worked for the next 20+ years. He had three daughters (all of whom he was sure would be boys), Kelli, Lacey, and Lindi. Along with wife Pam, he raised his daughters to love their family, their church, their community, classic cars, baseball, and oldies music.

Mark was a treasure trove of hilarious stories, and he collected them throughout his life the way some people collect coins or stamps. His comedic timing was perfect, and he almost always told stories on his feet, complete with re-enactments. He loved to rewrite the words of well known songs and poems to roast friends and family members.

One of Mark’s greatest loves in life was classic cars, and he restored many of them over the years. Each one had a name— Ethyl, Lucy Bell, Sally, Willis and Ruby. He won a regional car show with Ruby, a rare 1964 1/2 Mustang.

Mark was a devoted member of Freedom Fellowship in Tontitown for over fifteen years, where he served as an usher. He counted many in his church family among his oldest and dearest friends.

Mark was not given an easy row to hoe in this life, but he fought to the end and loved his family and friends with total devotion, and was deeply loved in return. His healing did not come earthside, but we know that it is now complete with God in heaven and with all those he loved who went before him.

Mark is survived by his mother, Sara Jo Scott of Skiatook, OK; three children—Kelli Meinershagen and husband Derek of Neosho, MO, Lacey Parks and husband Steve of Prairie Grove, and Lindi Phillips and husband Jared of Prairie Grove; eleven grandchildren— Kennedy (17), Finley (15), and Davis (14) McClure of Springdale, Iyla (11), Elsa (9), Abigail (6), and Magnolia (5) Parks of Prairie Grove, Cass (9), Benjamin (4), and Sparrow (1) Phillips of Prairie Grove, and Lennon Meinershagen (3) of Neosho, MO; two sisters, Dianne Siller and husband Billy of Tulsa, OK, and Glenda Mays and husband Wayne of Bella Vista, as well as many beloved nieces and nephews.