Marilyn Hill

MARILYN HILL

Cedar Rapids

Marilyn M. Johnson Hill, 89, of Latimer, passed away Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, at the Franklin General Hospital in Hampton of C.O.P.D. Funeral services for Marilyn will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, at First Reformed Church in Alexander. Pastor Phil Arnold will officiate. Burial will take place in the Alexander Cemetery, east of Alexander. A noon lunch will follow at the church. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, at the First Reformed Church in Alexander and will continue one hour before the service Wednesday at the church. Dugger Funeral Home, 320 East St., Latimer, is in charge of arrangements. Correspondence may be sent to Darwin at P.O. Box 505, Latimer, IA 50452.

Marilyn, the oldest child of Henry and Claire Johnson of Alexander was born July 5, 1925, at her grandparent's farm north of Alexander. She attended the Alexander Consolidated School and graduated as the valedictorian of her high school class.

During the 1950s, she served as the secretary to the superintendent of the Alexander School and later as the office manager at the Belmond Community Hospital. It was giving piano lessons that she first met Darwin Hill who would eventually become her husband.

In December 1960, she moved to Cedar Rapids to work in the newly developing computer department at St. Luke's Hospital. Four months later her future husband also started to work at St Luke's, joining Marilyn in the computer department.

The summer of 1973, Marilyn and Darwin both resigned from St. Luke's and decided they would proceed through the rest of their lives as the happily married couple they became. Darwin changed his career to become a salesman of custom printed computer forms. In 1990, they moved back home and settled in their present home in Latimer as Darwin began his current career in farming as well as income tax preparation.

Marilyn was a member of the Reformed Church in Alexander, Cedar Rapids and then again in Alexander. She taught Sunday school, catechism and was an active member and officer of the RCW of both churches as well as the classes RCW. She was the organist at the Alexander Reformed Church and was organist for various churches and chapels. Upon returning to Alexander, she was the assistant organist until her health prevented her from playing. She was a member of the Latimer Park Society and was the secretary of lot sales for the Alexander Cemetery.

Marilyn is survived by her husband, Darwin; brother, Jim (Diane); sister, Sandra (Bill); nephews, Lance, Ryan (Catherine), Steven, Seth (April), Michael and Darren (Jen); nieces, Jennifer and Michelle (Pat); and numerous great-nephews and great-nieces.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Claire Johnson; and her grandparents, Ben and Alvena Arends and John and Mary Johnson.