Chickasaw County IA Archives Obituaries.....Potter Hill, Aletha Laurinda  December 24, 1932
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New Hampton Tribune-Gazette. January 5, 1933
Obituary of Mrs. Aletha Hill." The New Hampton Tribune-Gazette, New Hampton, 
Iowa, January 5, 1933.   Potter.

IONIA -

Obituary Of Mrs. Aletha Hill

Way back in 1849 a Christmas gift came to the home Mrs. and Mrs. A. S. Potter, 
Jeddo, St. Clair Co., Michigan, (December 24th, 1849).   Aletha I. Hill, who 
died December 24, 1932, at the home of her brother, I.M. Potter, thus 
completing her 83 years.

She came with her parents to their prairie home in 1865, studied in Bradford 
Academy and taught with great success in this County in Crane Creek school 
eleven terms.

After attending the Michigan State Normal School, she continued to teach in 
Michigan.   she came back to Iowa to care for her aged mother until 1907 when 
she returned to Michigan.   She married Aaron Hill in 1911 and lived in Avoca, 
Michigan.   After the death of her husband in 1927, she came to Ionia in 
November , 1930, to the home of her brother I.M. Potter, who with her sisters, 
Mrs. Elsie Bigelow and mrs. Effie Stocks survive her.

The funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon, December 27th, with a 
short prayer at the home by Rev. Kent of Nashua and then to the Little Brown 
Church at Nashua. Conducted by Rev. kent, assisted by Rev. Charles Halbet of 
Ionia.

Interment was made in Greenwood cemetery.

many friends here extend sympathy to the sorrowing relatives.

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