Loudine Hill, a 101-year-old resident of the Sunnyview Apartments in Trenton, passed away at 4:30 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 19, 2002 at the Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton, where she had been a patient since Aug. 14, 2002.
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Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, 2002 at the Wesley United Methodist Church. Rev. Barry Boulware will officiate. Graveside rites will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, north of Blythedale.
There is no scheduled family visitation at the Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home in Trenton.
Miss Hill was born on Dec. 5, 1900 in Harrison County, the daughter of John Colson and Caroline Shepherd Hill. Her formal education began in a rural school in Harrison County. She attended the Academy of Graceland College at Lamoni, IA, then Northwest Missouri State University at Maryville, where she earned a bachelor of science degree. She then attended George Peabody College at Nashville, TN for post-graduate work. She began teaching in the fall of 1921 and taught in rural schools in northern Missouri for 20 years. She joined the staff of Northwest Missouri State University, teaching fifth grade at the Horace Mann Campus School in Maryville. From Maryville she moved to Moline, IL to be a classroom teacher in the public school system there. She then moved to Lamoni, IA, where she became the elementary principal. She moved in 1958 to Iowa Falls, IA, where she taught psychology and education and became the department head and also the chairman of the curriculum committee for many years. She held that position while the college went through its first NCAA accreditation process. She retired in 1969 and lived in Iowa Falls until she moved to Trenton in 1982 to make her home with her brother, Roland Hill. In 1994, they moved to the Sunnyview Apartments and later she moved to Eastview Manor Care Center.
Miss Hill was a member of the Wesley United Methodist Church in Trenton, the RSVP and the Dorcas Richardson chapter of the DAR; was a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star #346 in Iowa; was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma since 1947; and was a charter member of Beta Theta Chapter, serving as its first president. She also was a life member of the Iowa State Education Association.
Miss Hill is survived by a half-sister, Jean Simpson of Altoona, IA, and by several nieces and nephews.
Besides in her parents, Miss Hill was preceded in death by an infant sister and another sister, Maude Fowler; three brothers, Maurice, Harold and Roland Hill; and two half-brothers, James C. Hill and Jackie Davis.