Wise County, TX - Obits: Steve A. Lillard - 1920-2000
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              Steve A. Lillard
                1920-2000

Service for Steve A. Lillard, 79, of Inks Lake will be 11 a.m. on 
Saturday, May 13, at Oaklawn Cemetery in Decatur. 
Lillard died May 8, 2000 in Llano.

Born June 29, 1920, in Fort Worth, Lillard grew up in both Fort Worth 
and Decatur. He graduated from Paschal High School and attended Texas 
A&M University before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. 
He started his 40-year career in meat packing and advanced to regional 
sales and management posts with Swift & Company in San Antonio and 
Chicago. In 1957, he returned to Texas to build and operate plants in 
San Antonio, Laredo and Nuevo Laredo with livestock-buying operations 
in Mexico. 

He retired in 1965 and became active in civic affairs.
Lillard was appointed by Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe to the Texas Good 
Neighbor Commission in 1975 and was reappointed to the post in 1981 by 
Gov. William Clements. 

He served as the Zapata County Republican chairman. In 1995, he and his
wife moved to the Hill Country and he served as Llano County's 
"Bush for President" co-chair.
 
He was preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Annette Joiner 
Lillard, in 1998.

Survivors include his daughter, Dorothy De La Garza of Dallas; three 
sons, Steve A. Lillard IV of Kyle, Dr. George Terrell Lillard of Llano 
and Thomas F. Lillard of Dallas; 13 grandchildren; one great-grandson; 
and a sister, Betty Lou Lillard Gordon of Corpus Christi.

Pallbearers will be his sons-in-law and his grandsons.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.