Carol Lunt Hill's Obituary
Carol Lunt Hill died peacefully of natural causes in Lehi, Utah, on February 18, 2016. She would have been ninety on March 20.Descended from Mormon pioneers, Carol was born to Heaton Lunt and Chloe Haws in an adobe home in Duncan, Arizona. During her childhood, she endured the privations of the Great Depression. As a teen she waited and watched patriotically as the world was at war. A chance encounter with a soldier, home on furlough, led to romance and her marriage in 1946 to Clovis Lee Hill, who died in 2007, in the 62nd year of their eternal matrimony. Children joined the family in Provo and Lehi, Utah County, Utah, and in La Mesa, San Diego County, California, as Clovis finished his education and initiated his teaching career in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The Hills called Lemon Grove, California, their home from 1955 until Carol’s move back to Lehi in 2012.Carol was blessed with a passion for learning. When her children were all in school, she herself returned to school at San Diego State College, where she obtained her teaching credential. She was a classroom teacher and reading specialist with the Lemon Grove School District until her retirement in 1983. Her quest for knowledge persisted throughout her life. While her health allowed, Carol had the joyful opportunity to travel to Canada, central Mexico, England, Germany, the Holy Land, Armenia, Russia, New Zealand, and Australia, as well as to many of the United States. During 1985 and 1986, she and Clovis completed a full-time public relations mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Houston, Texas.Modest, charitable and industrious, Carol lost herself in service to her family and the community, participating enthusiastically in her neighborhood, in her church congregation, in the Lemon Grove Teachers Association, in the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, and in the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Many who knew her are aware also of her humble and ceaseless acts of love among individuals in her sphere of influence.She is survived by her siblings, Sarah Lunt McGuire, Wilbur Houston Lunt, and Donna Lunt Craven, by her children, Kathleen Hill Nielson, Bradley Lunt Hill, David Henry Hill, and Dianne Hill James, by 17 grandchildren, and by 40 great-grandchildren, with another expected in early March. Two grandsons, John Heaton “Johnny” James, and Eric Jonathan Hill, preceded their grandmother in death.Funeral services will be held at 11:00 on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at the Cottonwood 1st Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5913 Highland Drive, Holladay, UT. Viewing will be at 10:00 a.m.There will be a Memorial Service in Lemon Grove, CA. See below for details.
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