Baldwin — Services for Samuel C. Hill, 84, Baldwin, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church, Baldwin. Burial will be in Good Hope Cemetery, near Chapman.
Mr. Hill died Thursday, March 8, 2001, at Topeka Midland Hospice House.
He was born Sept. 16, 1916, the son of Samuel J. and Sarah T. (Finley) Hill. He attended a one-room school near his home and graduated from Gardner High School. He earned a teacher's certificate from Baker University and also earned his bachelor's degree from Baker in 1941.
Mr. Hill taught in rural Johnson County schools between his degrees, then taught seventh and eighth grade and served as an elementary principal in Greenleaf. After a semester there, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served for five years, including two in the European theater during World War II.
After the war, he was a sixth-grade teacher and elementary principal in Stockton for four years. During this time he earned a master's degree in education from Kansas State University. He then served as superintendent of Clay Center elementary schools for eight years.
Mr. Hill also had been a teacher at Baker. He retired in 1985. He was honored by Baker Alumni Assn. with the Mr. Alumni Day Award in 1977.
He was a member of Phi Delta Kappa, an honorary education fraternity; Kansas Reading Professionals in Higher Education; Baldwin Golf Assn.; and Lloyd Beaton American Legion Post.
He married Frances Wilkins on Dec. 2, 1942, in Wichita. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Sam J., Topeka, and Walter, Ellis; and three grandchildren.
The family will greet friends from 9 a.m. to service time Saturday at the church.
The family suggests memorials to Baker University Library Fund, sent in care of the Lamb-Roberts-Heise Funeral Home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin 66006.
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