May (Pointer) Hill (1957)

BRUNS, HILL, PAINTER, POINTER

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 2/12/2007 at 14:38:45

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 17, 1957

FORMER RESIDENT DIES AT 95 YEARS

Mrs. May Hill, a native of Winterset, but a resident of Des Moines for most of her life, died Monday July 15, at the age of 95 years.

Mrs. Hill was born at Winterset on Feb. 25, 1862. She was the former May Painter. The first 15 years of her life were spent in this community. As a young woman she was married to Thomas O. Hill. Her husband and one daughter and one son preceded her in death.

Surviving are a son, Guy B. Hill of Spokane, Wash., and a daughter, Mrs. J. E. Bruns of Winterset.

Funeral services were to be held this Wednesday afternoon from the Richards funeral home, conducted by the Rev. George DeF. Fisher, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church (church) of Winterset. Burial was to be made in the Chase-McDonald cemetery.
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Transcriber's note: Transcribed as published, her maiden name was "Pointer" as found on her mother's gravestone.

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