Clara Marie Hill

1922 - 2013

Clara Marie Hill peacefully died on March 18, 2013, after a long and meaningful life. The first child of Andrew Jensen and Kathleen Moses, Clara was born May 30, 1922. Clara graduate valedictorian of Rigby High School and went on to attend business school in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was in Salt Lake during World War II that she met and married Gerard (Jerry) Thomas Hill of New Haven, Conn., in 1943.

After the war Jerry graduated from the University of Utah and they moved to Southern California where Jerry pursued a career in advertising, and Clara worked for the Los Angeles City School District while raising their two children, Suzanne and David.

When Jerry became a partner in National Skating Derby (Roller Derby), Clara added her financial and business acumen to the effort; and they traveled extensively in the United States and abroad while promoting Roller Derby.

After many years of travel, Clara and Jerry returned to a more settled life in Marina Del Rey and Clara worked for the Santa Monica School District until they retired and moved to Oxnard, Calif.

When her beloved Jerry died in 1989, Clara became a volunteer for the St. John's Hospital Auxiliary and accumulated hundreds of hours of volunteer time. She continued to pursue her love of travel often visiting her children and sisters, and traveling to such exotic places as China, India and Egypt.

After open heart surgery in 2004, Clara resided at Aegis of Ventura where she was chairperson of the Residents Counsel.

Clara is survived by her two sisters, Alta Wroten of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Dorothy Brown of McKinney, Texas; and her two children, Suzanne Hill of Boston, Mass., and David Hill of Denver, Colo.

Clara will be interred with Jerry at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park. A reception and celebration of Clara's life will be held at Aegis of Ventura, 4964 Telegraph Road on Monday, March 25, from 1 to 3 p.m.

Arrangements were entrusted to the care of Charles Carroll Funeral Home, 15 Teloma Drive, Ventura, Calif., 642-8134.