HILLS, Lowell D.

HILLS, KESLER, MULLINS, JIMMERSON, BENBERG, YOUNG, SLETTEN, HOLSTEIN

Posted By: Don Blake
Date: 12/12/2007 at 08:52:32

1922-2007 REDIG FUNERAL HOME

Funeral services for Lowell Hills, 85, of Aurelia will be Fri., Dec 14, 2007, at 10:30 A.M. at the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia with Pastor Harold Werley officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Aurelia,. Military rites will conducted by the Grashoff-McManus American Legion Post #390 of Aurelia and the Alta VFW.

Lowell DeVere Hills was born Jan. 14, 1922, the Son of George and Blanche (Kesler) Hills in Storm Lake, Iowa. He attended schools in Newell, Sioux Rapids, and graduated from Alta in 1942. In Sept.1942 he was inducted into the U.S. Army being honorably discharged in Oct. 1945 at the rank of corporal. On July 26, 1942 Lowell married Bernadine Marie Mullins in Sioux Rapids, Iowa. To this union 3 children were born, Mary Lou, L. Dean, and Tim Hills.

Lowell worked in the telephone industry for 40 years. Managing at Linn Grove, Terril and for 31 years at the Peoples Telephone Company in Aurelia, retiring on Jan. 14, 1987. He served on Peoples Telephone Company Board of Directors, Aurelia City Council, Kiwanis, American Legion, Alta VFW, past president of the Aurelia Commercial Club, and served on the Aurelia Fire Dept. for 10 years. He was an active member of the First United Methodist Church serving as head usher and on various church boards. His first love was his family and he always said his main hobby was his work. Another hobby was sports, sports and more sports.

On Dec. 10, 2007 Lowell died at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center in Cherokee IA.

Preceding Lowell in death were his parents, and his sister, Marjorie and her husband Warren Jimmerson.

Survivors are his wife of Aurelia, A daughter Mary Lou and her husband Greg Benberg of Johnston Ia, 2 sons, L. Dean Hills of Overland Park, KS, and Tim and his wife Marsha Hills of Greenfield, IN, 6 grandchildren, Angie and her husband Ryan Young, Shawn and his wife Jodi Benberg, Jason and his wife B.J. Hills, Nicke and her husband Brian Sletten, Chad and his wife Jessica Hills, and T.J.and his wife Tina Hills, 15 great-grandchildren, and sister-in-law Marjorie and her husband Marvin Holstein of Early, IA, nieces and nephews and friends.