Maj. Julian M. Hill

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August 5, 2025

Maj. Julian M. Hill
Sumter Composite Squadron
South Carolina Wing

Julian M. Hill, 87, husband of Marie S. Hill died Thursday July 17, 2025 at Prisma Health Sumter.

Born on April 7, 1938, in Sumter, Mac was a son, one of five, of Otis Monroe and Mary Ruth Beck Hill. Mac graduated from Edmunds High School in 1957 and entered the University of South Carolina. Mac joined the South Carolina National Guard where he served for seven years after high school graduation. He worked for the Highway Department and General Telephone before learning to fly. After learning to fly, Mac spent his life doing exactly what he loved...flying. He started with Dothan Aviation where he flew for 15 years and then moved to Western US Cargo for the next few years. Mac worked for the next 20 years with the Saudi Arabian Airlines flying with the Special Flights. Mac rose to the pinnacle of aviation flying G-IV and G-V Gulfstream jets. As a captain he flew world diplomats and Saudi royalty always with humility, kindness and humor treating everyone he met with ease and friendly respect making friends all over the world.

Mac retired to his roots in Sumter, SC and quickly became involved in a life of service. He spent many hours volunteering with the Civil Air Patrol surrounded by friends and fellow aviation lovers. Other days you could find Mac volunteering with the Sumter Airport Commission, Beaufort County Mosquito Abatement, or driving veterans to the VA Hospital in Columbia. Mac continued flying as an instructor and volunteering as a pilot up until recently-he was a master of his craft. Everyone Mac interacted with he made friends with, and his humor always left them smiling.

Mac will always be remembered in our hearts and thought of every time a jet flies overhead through the clouds.

Survivors in addition to his wife of nearly 54 years include two sons Julian Maxwell Hill, Jr. and Stewart Mason Hill both of Charleston, South Carolina; five grandchildren, Julian Griffin, Cody Beck Griffin-Hill, Wyatt Griffin-Hill, Bailey Johnson and Blake Johnson; two brothers, David Hill of Nashville, Tennessee, and Michael Hill of Charleston, South Carolina.