Hill, Ella (Roth) died 1916

HILL, ROTH, EGLI, WHITE, WOOD

Posted By: A.M.W. (email)
Date: 4/27/2010 at 13:19:40

5/4/1916 Wayland News
Mrs. Ben Hill Called by Death

Brighton people were shocked Saturday by the announcement that Mrs. Ben Hill's condition was very critical and that physicians had no hope for her life. She had been in the Iowa City hospital for about two weeks but it was only Saturday that her condition became serious and Monday night, she passed away. Her trouble which she had always supposed to be hay fever was in reality a form of decay at the root of her nose from which a poisonous matter had collected and for the removal of which she had been in the hospital. When a little girl, she had fallen and struck her nose while playing and although the accident was long forgotten, the surgeons' examination shows that those bones never healed and that her trouble had been a gradual overgrowth from it.

The first operation was successfully performed two weeks ago and this second was considered of no danger until an x-ray examination disclosed a great black decay between her eyes. The operation was performed and the diseased bones removed, but from that time on her condition was very critical and recovery almost despaired of.

Her so, Glen, is a student at the University and was with her all the time, but the husband and other children were not sent for until Saturday, the whole family being together at the end.

Mrs. Hill was a resident here until a year ago when the family moved to Guthrie City, and has many warm friends who mourn her untimely death. She was a member of the M.E. Church and had always been faithful and willing in church work.

Besides her husband, three sons, Harold, Glen, and Lyle, and daughter, Hattie, she is survived by her mother who lives at Wayland and three sisters, Mrs. Haley White of Brighton, Mrs. Charles Egli of Merrimac, and Mrs. Berth Wood of Wayland and four brothers, Will of Wayland and three others who reside in Oregon.

The family will reach Brighton with the body today and funeral services will probably be held Thursday afternoon in the M.E. Church with burial in the Brighton Bill Crest Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Hill have a host of friends in this community where they made their home for many years, who will deeply sympathize with the family in their sad bereavement.