Harriette Ellen Hill

January 10, 1916 - December 9, 2016

Harriette Ellen Hill passed away quietly in her sleep on December 9, while under care Ave Maria Hospice in Fredericksburg, Texas. Mrs. Hill was born on January 10, 1916, in Tremonton, Utah and moved to the Rio Grande Valley with her parents in 1919. In 1937 she married Allwyn Bernard (A.B.) Hill, a citrus shipper partnered with Joseph Cullen Powell in owning the Donna Fruit Company of Edinburg, Texas. The couple had three sons - Davis Dayne, Larry Dean, and Berton Bernard. Mrs. Hill was loving home-maker, wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She was active in volunteer service, a charter member of Edinburg's Junior Service League and Senior Service League, a volunteer at the Edinburg Regional Medical Center and the Hidalgo County Historical Museum, a friend of the University of Texas Pan American Alumni Association, and a lifetime Member the Edinburg Library. Mrs. Hill was preceded in death by her oldest son, Dayne; her father, Roy Alton Lohr; mother, Mary Holler Lohr; husband, Bernard; sisters, Maxine Lohr, Dorothy Lindsey, Betty Lyles, Patricia Paris; bothers, Ronald Lohr, Daniel Lohr, John Lohr, and Larry Lohr; as well as daughters-in-law, Bonnie Hill and Doris Hill. She is survived by a sister, Charlene Cover of Seguin, Texas; two sons, Bert of Fredericksburg, Texas and Larry of Georgetown, Texas; many grandchildren and great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. A graveside service will be held Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at Valley Memorial Gardens at 2:00 p.m.