MCGG 12/27/1995

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George A. Hill

MASON CITY

Mr. George A. Hill, 72, of 1811 S. Harding Ave., died Sunday

(Dec. 24, 1995) at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Iowa

City.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Evangelical

Free Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Larry Yeoman officiating.

Interment will be in Grant Center Township Cemetery, rural Fertile.

Military honors will be provided by the Mason City Veterans Memorial

Association.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Ward-Van

Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, and will

continue one hour prior to services at the church on Thursday.

The family suggests memorials to the George A. Hill Memorial

Fund.

George was born Nov. 6, 1923, in Green Mountain, rural Marshall

County, the son of Charlie and Vernal (Randall) Hill. He graduated

from Ventura High School in 1941.

George served in the United States Navy during World War II

as a signalman. He married Merridy Zirbel on May 23, 1945, in

Clear Lake. He worked for Marigold Dairy as a milkman in wholesale

and retail in the Mason City area. He retired after 25 years

of service, in 1984. He drove a school bus for Huffman Transportation

in Mason City from 1992-95. He was a bus aide for the Head Start

program.

George's hobbies included bowling and golf. He was a member

of the Evangelical Free Church in Clear Lake, the Mason City

V.F.W. Post and the American Legion.

He is survived by his wife, Merridy Hill of Mason City; four

children, Linda Clausen and her husband, Michael of Mason City,

Gloria Hill of Waterloo, Randy Hill of Charlotte, N.C., and Scott

Hill of Charles City; three grandchildren, Michaelle Bahnsen

and her husband, Brian of Des Moines, Brent Clausen and his wife,

Shelly of Sheffield, and Josh Clausen of Mason City; three

great-grandchildren,

Alyson Clausen, Hunter Clausen and Joseph Bahnsen; a brother,

Richard Hill and his wife, Ruth of Clear Lake; a sister, Dorothy

Gobeli of Clear Lake; two sisters-in-law, Madeline Hill of Waterloo,

and Charlotte Hill of Ventura; two brothers-in-law, Stanley Zirbel

and his wife, Kit of Clear Lake, and Leverne Nelson of Fertile.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Earl

and Robert Hill.