Meade-Ford-Anderson County KS Archives Obituaries.....Hill, Rose Marie Peine December 3, 2009
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Meade County News, December, 2009
ROSE MARIE PEINE HILL 

Rose Marie passed away at the Manor of the Plains in Dodge City, Kansas this 
past Thursday, December 3, 2009, at the age of 90 years, one month and three 
days old. Her birth was 29 October, 1919 in Greeley, Kansas unto Walter Frank 
Peine and Letha Alice Scully. Her Grandparents were first generation, farming 
and stone sculpting immigrants from Nieheim, Westphalia, Germany and Clonmel, 
County of Tipperary, Ireland. She began her career as a Registered Nurse, 
graduating from Kansas City General Hospital, Missouri where she met her 
husband while assisting in obstetric deliveries. They were married for 
sixty-four years until his passing, February 26, 2008. Upon her husband’s 
return from overseas Army assignment and establishment of his medical practice 
in Meade, she continued to work as a homemaker and Mother, seeking new 
challenges to express her artistic talent of sketching and oil painting, the 
collection, matting and preservation of wild flowers, all of which displayed 
of our life upon the high plains of southwestern Kansas. 

To compliment her artistic interests, she undertook and successfully 
established her own small business as a florist in Meade, Kansas. She chose 
thereafter to pursue her nursing career in the care of those sick and in need 
of help as a Registered Nurse with the Western Plains Medical Complex, traveling 
nightly from their residence to Dodge City and return to Meade. She subsequently 
worked as a Registered Nurse for the Trinity Hospital in Dodge City, and thereafter 
as the Meade County Home Healthcare Nurse through the Trinity Home Health Care 
Association. 

She actively participated as a member of the altar guild for the St. Augustine 
Episcopal Church, member of the Meade Public Library Board, assisted the 
Iroquois Medical Society meetings, she has been a lifetime member of Kansas’ first 
Chapter “A” of the P.E.O.  International Sisterhood and frequent host of local 
bridge parties. 

Rose Marie was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Hastings Hill, M.D. 
and her daughter, Carol Ann Hill Hatfield. She is now survived by her son, 
David Hill and her daughter, Becky Bredfeldt, eight grandchildren, 33 great, 
grand children and 6 great, great grand children. 

Public Viewing will be held Sunday, December 6, 2009, at the Fidler-Orme-
Bachman Mortuary, Meade, Kansas from 11 a.m. until funeral services begin at 7 
p.m. Internment services shall be at 10:00 a.m., Monday, December 7, 2009 with 
burial thereafter, resting alongside her husband's grave at the Graceland Cemetery, 
Meade, Kansas, located at the edge of the Jones and Plummer pioneer trail, among 
overlooking cottonwood trees, which welcomed shade for a spring fed trickling of 
a meandering Crooked Creek. 


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