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Kathryn Bertha Hill

1919 - 2014

Kathryn Bertha Hill obituary, 1919-2014, Griggsville, IL

BORN

1919

DIED

2014

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Lockart-Green Funeral Home - Findlay

301 East North First Street

Findlay, Illinois

Kathryn Hill Obituary

Kathryn Bertha Hill, 95, of Griggsville, and formerly of Findlay and Shelbyville, died at 5:37 p.m. Friday, April 4, 2014, in Liberty Village/Pittsfield Manor in Pittsfield.

She was born in Findlay on April 5, 1919, to Bert and Sara Bixler Tinnea. She married Glenn Hill on July 1, 1939, in St. Charles, Mo.

She is survived by one niece, Yvonne Brooks and family of Decatur; and very dear friends, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Rawlings of Jacksonville and Ike (Richard) and Linda Downs of Shelbyville. Her husband, parents, brother and sister preceded her in death.

During World War II she worked for two years at the Savanna Ordinance Proving Grounds and later worked for Sta-Rite Hairpin Company in Shelbyville for 10 years and General Electric Company for 17 years, retiring in 1970.

Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Findlay Cemetery with the Rev. Kevin Ray officiating. Memorials are suggested to the Findlay Cemetery or the charity of choice. Lockart-Green Funeral Home in Findlay is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be left online at www.lockartgreenfuneralhome.com.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by Jacksonville Journal-Courier on Apr. 8, 2014.

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