Melba Evelyn Hill (1925-2009)

HILL, ASHBAUGH, MORRIS, SEVENBERGEN, EDWARDS

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 6/2/2009 at 18:57:21

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, June 2, 2009.

Melba Evelyn Hill, 84, of Huxley, died Saturday, May 30, 2009, at Madrid Home. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, at Soderstrum Riis Funeral Home in Slater. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 3, at Fjeldberg Lutheran Church in Huxley.

Melba was born March 27, 1925, in Vinton, to Roy and Mary (Morris) Ashbaugh. She was baptized in Redfield and confirmed at Fjeldberg Lutheran Church, where she was still a member. She was a 1942 graduate of Huxley High School. She married Robert Hill Sept. 30, 1942, in Huxley. She worked at Bourne’s as an electrical assembler for 18 years, retiring in 1984. She was also a cook in the Kelley and Ballard schools. She was an avid collector and enjoyed reading, playing cards and watching sports on TV. She loved her pets.

She is survived by three children, her sons, Robert Hill Jr. and his wife, Carol, of Huxley, and Dale Hill and his wife, Beth, of Loveland, Colo., and her daughter, Joyce Sevenbergen and her husband, Bob, of Ames; one sister, Marilyn Edwards and her husband, Jack, of Clarion; eight grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Hill Sr., in 1998.

Soderstrum Riis Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.

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