OBITUARY: Fred Lyle Hill, 1912-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa

[Based on obituary in Mitchell County Press-News -- Dec 15, 2004]




                           Fred Lyle Hill

Funeral services will be held Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 at Clasen-Jordan
Mortuary, 209 Second Avenue, N.W., Austin, Minn, for Fred Lyle Hill,
age 92. Private interment will be at Liberty Cemetery, Little Cedar,
Iowa on Friday.

Mr. Hill died at his home on Sunday evening, December 12, 2004 following
a long battle with cancer.

Fred Lyle Hill was born September 17, 1912 to Fred Gove McCurdy Hill and
LaVinnia Mae McMinn Hill at Oak Lawn Farms in Little Cedar, Iowa. His
mother passed away when he was four, whereby his grandparents, Richard
and martha Hill moved back to the farm to care for him. His father
later married Verna Graves when "Lyle" was eleven. To that union was
born a daughter, Glenna Mae Hill (Hastings.) Verna passed away when
Glenna was still a teen.

His father,Fred, married Gladys Pearl Thompson Young and this added
three more siblings to the family, Virginia (Forrest) Ellison, Marion
(Mildred) Young and Charles (Helen) Young.

Lyle (the name he went by in Little Cedar) graduated from Little Cedar
High School in 1929, Valedictorian of his class. On October 28, 1933
he married Thelma Lucille Tabor in Floyd, Iowa. They made their home
in Little Cedar, Lyle working the farm with his Dad and driving school
bus, a job he had started while still in school which at that time was
a horse-drawn wagon. To this union were born three daughters, Barbara
(Robert) Langan of Austin, MInn, Beatrice )Bettie and Jerry) Deden
of Comstock, Wisc., Patricia Nybo of Eagan, Minn, and a son, Bryan
and Kim Hill of Omaha, Neb.

In 1939, the family purchased the Sinclair Service Station in McIntire,
Iowa. Lyle also ran a scrap truck to St. Paul, Minn. In 1941, the
family moved to Austin, MInn where both parents began working at the
Hormel Factory. With the war raging, Lyle went to enlist in the service,
not being able to pass the exam due to his eyesight, he chose to stay
in Akron, Ohio, working in an airplane factory making wings for the
Martin P-54. He stayed on there until mid-1943. On May 1, 1942 a home
was purchased and moved into, a home that has seen many changes under
the workmanship of Lyle. It was his home until now.

Lyle retired from Hormel Co. in September 1977 after 35 years of working
the same job in the hog kill head bench.

Preceding him in death were his wife, Thelma, two granddaughters, Mary
Elizabeth Langan and Denise Seavey, brothers, Marion and Charles Young.

Those that survive him include his daughters, Barbara Langan of Austin,
Minn, Bettie and Jerry Deden of Comstock, Wisc., Patricia Nybgo of
Eagan, Minn, a son, Bryan and Kim Hill of Omaha, Neb., 19 grandchildren,
47 great-grandchildren and 14 great-great-grandchildren. Sisters and
brother-in-law, Glenna Hastings of Elma, Virginia and Forrest Ellison
of Osage, sister-in-law, Helen Young of Osage; nieces and nephews.
Special friends, Don and Pam Hanson and sons, Gladys Riste, Charles
Huston, neighbors, Duane and Rosie Monson, Jan and Harold Naatz.



           Copyright 2004, K.L. Kittleson