Roberta Elaine (Wildman) Hill (1928 - 2011)

Born 16 May 1928 in Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Douglass Orville Hill — married about 1952 in Virginia

Died 28 May 2011 at age 83 in Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina

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Biography

She graduated from Morgantown High School in 1946, and earned Bachelor degrees from West Virginia University (double majors in English and Sociology) and a Master’s degree in Education. At WVU, she was a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority, served as an assistant to the Dean of Women, and participated in several campus organizations. She was a soloist for many groups on campus and performed with her church choir. Her WVU years instilled in her a lifelong loyalty to the Mountaineers, and particularly university athletics.

Upon graduation she moved to Winchester, where she taught English at John Handley High School. Subsequently, she met and married Dr. Douglass O. Hill, who practiced Internal and Pulmonary Medicine in Winchester from 1951 until retiring in 1993. Her support for her husband and community was expressed in many ways. Mrs. Hill served on the Winchester Memorial Hospital Auxiliary for over 30 years, and was co-chairperson for recruiting and coordinating the original volunteers at the hospital gift shop. She was a cart volunteer, served on committees for Pencil Day, and assisted with the annual Hospital Follies.

Mrs. Hill was a former member and officer of the Northwestern Workshop (now NW Works, Inc.) for which she organized a fundraiser for its first building, the Women’s Civic League, and the Hawthorne Garden Club. Along with her husband, she was a member of the Winchester Historical Society, Shenandoah Region Antique Automobile Club of America, and the Braddock Street United Methodist Church (where she was a participant in the Mary Martha Circle). She also helped for many years with the Queen’s Court of the annual Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival. Dr. and Mrs. Hill were both supporters of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley/Glen Burnie and Belle Grove Plantation (where she served as a docent), and were early members of the Kernstown Battlefield Association. It was family, though, that stood at the center of Mrs. Hill's life. She constantly strove to seek the best for all, and to encourage all to put forward the best of themselves.

Mrs. Hill was preceded in death last August by her dearly loved husband of 58 years. She was also predeceased by her brother, Harold Glenn Wildman (of Morgantown, WV), and her two sisters, Irene Grace Blankenship (Phoenix, AZ), and Dorothy Eloise Duffield (Uniontown, PA). From: Diane Renfrow dhrenfrow(at)yahoo.com

Full obituary at ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ http://obitsforlife.com/obituary/347886/Hill-Roberta.php

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMHL-RBV : accessed 13 June 2018), Cassius Wildman, Westover, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 10, sheet 10B, line 80, family 231, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2548; FHL microfilm 2,342,282. Dau Irene age 17; son Harold age 15; dau Dorothy E age 5; dau Roberta E age 1

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7Z6-7RK : accessed 13 June 2018), Cussius L Wildman, Ward 5, Morgantown, Morgan Magisterial District, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 31-30A, sheet 6A, line 52, family 104, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4433. dau Irene G age 27; dau Eloise age 15, dau Roberta E age 11

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