HILL, George A.

HILL, RANDLL, ZIRBEL, CLAUSE, BAHNSEN, GOBELI, NELSON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/11/2016 at 01:15:27

Obituary ~ George A. Hill
November 6, 1923 ~ December 24, 1995

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
December 27, 1995

Mr. George A. Hill, 72, of 1811 S. Harding Ave., Mason City, died Sunday (Dec. 24, 1995) at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Iowa City.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Evangelical Free Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Larry Yeoman officiating. Interment will be in Grant Center Township Cemetery, rural Fertile. Military honors will be provided by the Mason City Veterans Memorial Association.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, and will continue one hour prior to services at the church on Thursday.

The family suggests memorials to the George A. Hill Memorial Fund.

George was born Nov. 6, 1923, in Green Mountain, rural Marshall County, the son of Charlie and Vernal (Randall) Hill. He graduated from Ventura High School in 1941.

George served in the United States Navy during World War II as a signalman. He married Merridy Zirbel on May 23, 1945, in Clear Lake. He worked for Marigold Dairy as a milkman in wholesale and retail in the Mason City area. He retired after 25 years of service, in 1984. He drove a school bus for Huffman Transportation in Mason City from 1992-95. He was a bus aide for the Head Start program.

George's hobbies included bowling and golf. He was a member of the Evangelical Free Church in Clear Lake, the Mason City V.F.W. Post and the American Legion.

He is survived by his wife, Merridy Hill of Mason City; four children, Linda Clausen and her husband, Michael of Mason City, Gloria Hill of Waterloo, Randy Hill of Charlotte, N.C., and Scott Hill of Charles City; three grandchildren, Michaelle Bahnsen and her husband, Brian of Des Moines, Brent Clausen and his wife, Shelly of Sheffield, and Josh Clausen of Mason City; three great-grandchildren, Alyson Clausen, Hunter Clausen and Joseph Bahnsen; a brother, Richard Hill and his wife, Ruth of Clear Lake; a sister, Dorothy Gobeli of Clear Lake; two sisters-in-law, Madeline Hill of Waterloo, and Charlotte Hill of Ventura; two brothers-in-law, Stanley Zirbel and his wife, Kit of Clear Lake, and Leverne Nelson of Fertile.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Earl and Robert Hill.

NOTE: Michaelle and Leverne are correct spellings per funeral home.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2016