JOHN H. HILL DIED AT MASON.
It was wil genuine sorrow that news was received of the death of John
H. Hill, which occurred at his home in Mason last Monday afternoon, about
five o'clock. The deceased was one of the best known men in that section
of the county. He had been in poor health for some time, suffering with
an affection of the throat. Mr. Hill was aged about 80, and was a soldier
of the civil war. His wife preceeded hi to the grave about 3 years
ago. A son, Charles, and a daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Gorsuch, are the immediate
relatives who survive the deceased.
The funeral services will be held at the farm owned by Mr. Hill, 2 miles
South of Mason, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon and interment will be
made in the Mason cemetery.
Mr. Hill had been a resident of Warren County the greater portion of his
long life.
Source: unnamed paper dated Thursday,
September 15, 1921
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren
County Genealogical Society
Arne H Trelvik
11 February 2011
MARINE KILLED IN SOUTH PACIFIC BURIED SUNDAY
Enlisted in Service While Senior at Lebanon High School
Military funeral services in charge of the Ralph P. Snook Post of the
American Legion were held Sunday at 2:30 o’clock at the Oswald Funeral
Home for Pfc. Perl “Buddy” Hill, aged 20, who was killed in
action in the South Pacific in July, 1944, while serving with the U.S.
Marines. Burial was in Lebanon
Cemetery. The Rev. B. F. Judd of Cincinnati, officiated.
Pfc. Hill was a senior in Lebanon high school when he enlisted in the
U.S. Marine Corps and had been in the service two years. He was a former
employe of Stokes Dairy Company.
He is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Emery Hill, two sisters, Mrs.
Paula Thomas and Marna Lee Hill, Lebanon, and two brothers, Lionel and
Robert, also of Lebanon.
Source: The Western Star, Lebanon,
Ohio, Thursday, July 1, 1948
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren
County Genealogical Society
by
Arne H Trelvik
10 June 2009