Hill, Max D. 1920-2004

HILL, CHRISTNER, GRAF, GREINER, WHITNEY, WESELY, SAMMONS, CRILE

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 1/8/2004 at 22:29:08

Max D. Hill
January 07, 2004

Max D. Hill, 83, of Washington, Iowa, died Monday, Jan. 5, 2004, at Washington County Hospital in Washington.

The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at First Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Hoyt Whitebread officiating. Burial will be in the Elm Grove Cemetery in Washington.

Visitation will begin at noon Thursday at Beatty Funeral Home in Washington with the family receiving friends from 6-8 p.m.

A memorial has been established to First Lutheran Church or the American Heart Association.

Mr. Hill was born April 18, 1920, near Trenton, Iowa, the son of John W. and Bertha Christner Hill. He married Mildred Graf Feb. 28, 1942, in Kahoka, Mo.

He attended school at Star School near Trenton. He was in the Army Air Corps during World War II and served in Siapan and Guam. He farmed northeast of Fairfield after WWII and was employed at the Fairfield Co-op as a truck driver and later worked at Acco Louden in Fairfield where he retired from. He moved to Washington in 1988. His pastimes included watching the Chicago Cubs, antique tractors and horses.

He was a member of First Lutheran Church in Fairfield.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Walter Hill and wife Bonnie of Birmingham, Larry Hill and wife Norma of Fairfield, and Keith Hill and wife Diana of Brighton; one daughter, Donna Greiner and husband Kenneth of Brighton; three brothers, Jacob Hill of Baldwin Park, Calif., Kenneth Hill of Danville and Stan Hill of Mount Pleasant; three sisters, Leola Whitney of Placerville, Calif., Florence Wesely of Mount Pleasant and Melva Sammons of Mount Pleasant; 10 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Lester and Carl Hill; one sister, Mina Crile; and two great-grandsons.

Courtesy of the Fairfield Daily Ledger Inc. 2004