#1-Printed in the December 25, 1947 Pilot Tribune, Blair, Nebraska

MISS ELLA HILL DIED TUESDAY

RETIRED VETERAN TEACHER IS DEAD; RITES AT 2 P.M. WEDNESDAY

Victim of a protracted illness, Miss Ella Hill, 71, retired teacher who was an instructor 45 years in Blair and Omaha, died early Monday at Blair Hospital.

Funeral services: 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Congregational Church, the Rev. Charles W. Seward officiating, and burial in Blair Cemetery; Bendorf Funeral Home in charge.

Miss Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Hill, was born in this county July 22, 1876. Her father was a prominent early-day surveyor. Miss Hill was graduated from Blair High School in 1894, then attended Peru and Greeley Normal Schools and later was graduated from Wayne State Teachers College.

Turning to school teaching as her career, Miss Hill taught at Blair’s Central School from 1896 to 1919 as first-grade teacher, and before leaving that post had been the teacher to the children of some of her first pupils. She was in Omaha as a grade-school teacher from 1920 until her retirement in 1941, when she returned to live at the Hill home, 410 West Colfax St.

Miss Hill was a lifetime member of Blair’s Congregational Church, and was a trustee for a number of years. During the recent war she took an active part in Red Cross work, and was in charge of the surgical dressings project for Washington county.

Surviving Miss Hill is a sister, Miss Blanche Hill of Blair.

#2-25 Dec., 1947 - The Enterprise

ELLA A. HILL, WELL KNOWN AS TEACHER, DIES

Native Of County, Educator Of Wide Experience.

Ella A. Hill, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hill, died at the Blair Hospital on Monday, December 22. Deceased was born in Blair on July 22, 1876. She graduated from the Blair High school in 1894, and later attended the Peru Normal of Nebraska and the Greeley, Colorado Normal, and she also later was graduated from the Wayne State Teachers College.

She began her teaching experience in Blair in 1896 and continued as one of the faculty until 1919, and then she went to Omaha where she taught until her retirement in 1941, making a total of forty four years that she devoted to her chosen work.

She was a real Christian, and her entire life was an ideal one, always living up to her ideals of right and wrong. Words cannot express the qualities and high ideals that marked her every move, and the Congregational church of which she was a life long member will greatly miss her pleasant, helpful personality and her wise council.

Since retirement from teaching, and especially during the war, she was deeply interested in Red Cross work and was in charge of Red Cross dressings work for Washington county. In fact her time was never wasted and she found time to lend a helping hand in so many ways that one cannot help but say “Well done good and faithful servant”. So ends a life of unselfishness and one well worthy of emulation and her influence will live after her in the hearts of all who knew her.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Congregational Church under the auspices of the Bendorf Funeral Home, and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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