Howard James Hill
(1918-1974)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Dorothy Irene Hornbeck

Howard James Hill 1 2 3

  • Born: 3 Feb 1918, Greencastle, Putnam, IN, USA 3
  • Marriage (1): Dorothy Irene Hornbeck on 17 Jun 1939 in Jeffersonville, Clark, Indiana, USA 1
  • Died: 27 Sep 1974, Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA at age 56 1 3
  • Buried: West Lafayette: Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, Tippecanoe, IN, USA 3

   FamilySearch ID: LHM9-293.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence: on 19 Oct 1942 in Cutler, Carroll, IN, USA. 4

2. Residence: 651 1/2 E. Wabash St., Lafayette, IN on 16 Aug 1947 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. 5

3. Census in 1950 in Reynolds, White, IN, USA. 2 The 1950 census recorded Howard J. Hill, filling station operator, 32, living with wife Dorothy I., 29; and daughters Joyce A., 7, and Cheryl E., 2. Everyone was born in Indiana.

4. Obituary: Journal and Courier: Howard Hill, White County, Dies on 28 Sep 1974 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. 6 REYNOLDS - White County Auditor Howard J. Hill, 56, died at 10:45 a.m. Friday in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Lafayette. He had been in ill health for several months and was hospitalized July 22. Mr. Hill was born in Greencastle but lived in White County most of his life. He was elected county auditor in 1969 and also was a member of the Reynolds town board. He operated the Standard Service Station at Reynolds for 13 years before entering the real estate business. He developed Hill addition in Reynolds. Mr. Hill worked for Vogel Real Estate at Monticello, in 1968-69 and for the Davis Insurance Co., Reynolds. He was Honey Creek Township trustee for two terms. He was married in 1939 to Dorothy Hornbeck, who survives. Mr. Hill was a member of the Reynolds United Methodist Church, the Indianapolis Scottish Rite, Monticello Masonic Lodge, Chalmers American Legion, White County Board of Realtors and the Indiana County Auditor's Association. , He served in the Navy during World War II. Survivng with the wife are two daughters, Mrs. Joyce Garcia, Villa Park, Ill., and Mrs. Cheryl Belmont, Houston, Texas; his father, R. D. Hill of Frankfort; two brothers, J. A. Hill Poplar Bluffs, Mo., and William H. Hill of Pagoso Springs, Colo, and three sisters, Mrs. Ester Clouster, Peoria, Ill., Mrs. Eleanor Mitchel, Frankfort and Mrs. Saranna Laughner, New Braunfels, Tex.


Howard married Dorothy Irene Hornbeck, daughter of John Patterson Hornbeck and Magdalena "Maggie" Beeker, on 17 Jun 1939 in Jeffersonville, Clark, Indiana, USA.1 (Dorothy Irene Hornbeck was born on 17 May 1920 in , White, IN,1 7 died on 24 Jan 2011 in Brookston, White, IN, USA 1 7 and was buried on 30 Jan 2011 in West Lafayette: Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, Tippecanoe, IN, USA 1 7.)


Sources


1 "Clapper Funeral Services (Brookston, IN)," https://www.clapperfuneralservices.com/obituary/5182537 Obituary of Dorothy I Hill.

2 "1950 United States Census," https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XLH-5N6B Howard J Hill Reynolds, White, In.

3 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136067231.

4 Ancestry.com, Indiana, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1907-1944, Joyce Ann Hill b. 19 Oct 1942 in Frankfort IN father Howard J Hill mother Dorothy Hornbeck.

5 "Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)," 18 Aug 1947, page 4.

6 "Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)," 28 Sep 1974, page 4. Obituary of Howard J. Hill.

7 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64808178.



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