Vivian Hill

LINGLE, WY . . . . Funeral services for VIVIAN L. HILL, 92, will be held at 2pm on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at the Community Presbyterian Church in Lingle with Reverend Curtis Hill officiating. The casket will be open briefly prior to the services. Burial will be held in the Hillcrest Cemetery. Vivian died on November 17, 2010 at the Goshen Care Center. Memorials may be directed to the Lingle Community Presbyterian Church. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com Vivian was born on June 8, 1918 in Shelton, Nebraska the daughter of George and Edith (Arnold) Haas. The family moved to the family homestead near Veteran, Wyoming in 1922. Vivian attended school at Veteran and graduated from Veteran High School in 1936. She went on to attend the University of Wyoming for two years. On October 2, 1938 she married Harold H. Hill at Lingle. The couple then farmed south of Lingle for 22 years. Vivian returned to college at EWC and the University of Wyoming where she graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor’s in Education. She then taught elementary school in Guernsey, Wyoming for 10 years. She and Harold moved to Lingle in 1975. Vivian retired in 1982. Harold passed away in 1986. Vivian remained in Lingle until moving to the Golden Manor in Torrington in 2002, and later to the Goshen Care Center. She was a member of the Lingle Community Presbyterian Church since 1938 and a member of the Presbyterian Women’s Association. Vivian also was a member of the Tuesday Study Club, Eastern Wyoming Retired Teachers Association; and she served as a 4-H Club leader. She enjoyed gardening, flowers, traveling, and sewing. She is survived by her three sons, Roger W. Hill of Colorado Springs Colorado, Curtis Hill of Lingle, Wyoming, and Steven L. Hill of Colorado Springs, a daughter, Jeanette Sorelle of Thermopolis, Wyoming, a sister, Mary Ellen Fullmer of Torrington, Wyoming; 12 grandchildren, and 17 great grandchildren. In addition to her parents and husband, Vivian was preceded in death by a son, Royce and a daughter, Lois Arville; two sisters, Helen Booth and Emma Jean Terrell, and four brothers Hubert, Leslie, Howard, and Bernard Haas.

Vivian Hill

June 8, 1918 - November 17, 2010