Mary Ellen Hill (1921-2006)
HILL, COFFIN, SHEETS, SHAEFFER, FISCHER, MOORE, TYSON
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 6/10/2006 at 07:23:58
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, June 9, 2006.
Mary Ellen Hill, 85, of Huxley, died Thursday, June 8, at Mary Greeley Medical Center. Arrangements are pending with Soderstrum Riis Funeral Home in Slater.
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Saturday, June 10, 2006.
Mary Ellen Hill, 85, of Huxley, died Thursday, June 8, at Mary Greeley Medical Center. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday, June 12, at Fjeldberg Lutheran Church in Huxley with the Rev. Tom Hilger officiating. Burial will be at Fjeldberg Cemetery.
A visitation will be after 3 p.m. Sunday with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Soderstrum Riis Funeral Home in Slater.
Mary Ellen was born on Jan. 15, 1921, in Dallas County to Clarence and Bertha (Sheets) Coffin. She lived in Huxley since 1939 and was a resident of Ballard Creek for two years. She graduated from Alleman High School and worked at Collegiate Manufacturing, Eldridge Seed Corn & Bournes until her retirement in 1970.
Mary Ellen married Marion S. Hill on July 15, 1939. She was an avid reader, played cards, enjoyed her grand and great grandchildren and was a fan of Iowa basketball.
Mary Ellen is survived by one daughter, Sharon Shaeffer (Tom) of Huxley; one son, Larry Hill (Betty) of Des Moines; one sister, Maxine Fischer of Des Moines; two brothers, Paul Coffin of Des Moines and Laddie Coffin of Des Moines; four grandchildren, Todd Hill of Berwick, Randy Shaeffer (Lucy) of Huxley, Sheryl Moore (Jim) of Montgomery, Texas, and Suzanne Tyson (Ty'bo) of The Wooodlands, Texas; and eight great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband on May 8, 1985; two brothers, Harold and Burton Coffin; and granddaughter, Jody Lynn Hill.
Soderstrum-Riis Funeral Home, 101 Benton St., Slater, is handling arrangements.
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