Tanesha Hill
Feb. 25, 1989 Nov. 20, 2006
Tanesha Estella Hill, 17, of Huntsville passed away Monday at Huntsville Hospital. Tanesha was born in Huntsville on Feb. 25, 1989, to Freeman A. Sales and Lisa Hill-Sledge. She was an A/B student, a participant in cross-country track, and an active member of her church. A public viewing will be held from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today at Royal Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Oakwood College SeventhDay Adventist Church with Pastor David Lee officiating. Interment will be in Valhalla Memory Gardens. The body will lie in repose for one hour prior to funeral time. Royal Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include her loving and devoted mother, Lisa Hill-Sledge and husband Chris of Huntsville; father, Freeman A. Sales of Chattanooga; sisters, Alicia Hill, Melissa Hill, and Kaletta Hill; brother, Freeman Hill Jr.; grandmothers, Sarah Jordan and husband Johnny, and Della Clemmons; great-grandmother, Sero Clemons; uncle, Lloyd Sales; aunts, Tracy McLauren, Doris Davis, and Ruby Sales; adopted siblings, Ebony Hill, April Hill, Brady Davis, Natasha Hill, Amanda Hill, Mirandez Hill, and Angelica Hill; devoted godmother, Mary Stone; two other godmothers, Elaine Calhoun and Narvell Patton.
November 22, 2006
NewsChannel 19's Janine Reyes reports:
Four families are struggling through the holidays tonight, dealing with the loss of the teenagers who died on bus 50-37. One of those girls is Tanesha Hill.
Tanesha was 17-years-old. She loved cosmetology class and that's where she was going Monday morning when her bus came crashing off the I-565 on-ramp. Tanesha made it to the hospital, but died in surgery Monday afternoon.
Her family tells us she would have been one of the first in the family to graduate high school. She hoped to become a second grade teacher.
"She was determined to make something out of herself. Nobody could pull her back. She was determined to make something of herself," said Hill's aunt, Doris Davis.
Tanesha's friends and family are holding on to a shoe she was wearing Monday. They've filled it with messages to Tanesha, one of them reads, "I miss you and I love you, rest in peace." Tanesha will be buried in her cap and gown.
Family celebrates life of Lee High School bus crash victim
Feb 26, 2007 12:11 AM EST
Sunday was bittersweet for one valley family.
They celebrated the birthday of their loved one, without her.
Tanesha Hill would have turned 18 years old.
She died in the Lee High School bus crash.
Her family tells us they wanted to celebrate her life with a bar-b-que.
Four students died in the November 20th crash.
The bus plunged from Interstate 565 after colliding with a car driven by another Lee High School student.
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