Edgar Charles Hill |
| Posted 2008-05-05 by Maurine |
| Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, Arizona - September 30, 1949 FUNERAL SERVICES HELD HERE MONDAY FOR TWO BROTHERS In simple but impressive rites at the Wickenburg chapel last Monday morning, friends and relatives paid their final respects to two pioneer Arizonans and respected, honored residents of the Wickenburg area for many years, Edgar Charles and Myron F. Hill, brothers, whose deaths occurred within 24 hours here last week-end. Myron, the younger brother, born April 3, 1884, passed away at Community Hospital at 11 a.m. Friday, September 23. His older brother, born April 22, 1878 was summoned at 6 o’clock the following morning in the same hospital. Both had been in ill health for a number of years. Both were born in Wisconsin and came to Arizona in 1885, the family establishing a home in Flagstaff. The two brothers spent many years in the mining business in Northern Arizona, in the Belmont, Jerome, Mayer and Humbolt regions. The younger brother, Myron, left the mining business in 1930 when he moved to Prescott and became an automobile mechanic. Approximately 10 years later he moved to Wickenburg where he worked in the garage at Tegner and First Streets which had been erected by Ed Hill upon the latter’s retirement from active mining in the early 20’s. The garage was known for many years as Hills’s Garage and down through the years was leased by several men, including Wickenburg’s present mayor, Joe Walters. It is now known as the Sears & Hill Motor company. In 1945, Myron Hill returned to Prescott to resume work for the L.B. Price Company there, but ill health forced him to abandon all work in 1947, when he returned to Wickenburg to live. Surviving Myron Hill are a daughter, Mrs. Mary Harrington of Wickenburg and two step-sons, Kewen and Durward Savage, both of Los Angeles; also a sister, Mrs. Minnie Britz of Phoenix, and two grandchildren, Mary Lorraine and Joan Bernice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brian Harrington. Edgar Hill, more familiarly known to hundreds of friends here and around the state as “Ed” was owned of several mines in the Mayer district where he lived a member of years, likewise in the vicinity of Poland Junction where he resided 20 years. He became affiliated with the B.P.O.E. (Elks Lodge) at Prescott and at the time of his death had been a member of more than 23 consecutive years. He was the owner of a ranch on the big Bug as well as the garage he built here, at the time of his death. Active in many civic affairs here, he served as a member of Town Council from July1 of 1946 to July 1948. He was one of the founders and first president of the Wickenburg Protective Association created in 1946 to successfully resist granting of a franchise for electric power to the Central Arizona Light & Power Company. Surviving Ed Hill are the widow, Mrs. Myrna Hill and a step-daughter, Mrs. Jennie Nelson of Needles. She is the mother of Lawrence Nelson of Parker, formerly of Wickenburg, and Mrs. Katherine Smiley of Needles. Also surviving is the sister, Mrs. Minnie Britz of Phx. Rev. Charles Surber of the First Presbyterian Church conducted the double funeral service here Monday, following which the remains of the two men were taken to Prescott for the burial side-by-side in the cemetery there. The Elks conducted the grave-side services for Ed Hill. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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