NEW ORLEANS — A funeral service for Helen Wingard Hill, 36, formerly of Columbia SC, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Columbia, with burial following in Elmwood Cemetery and Gardens, Columbia. Visitation will be Tuesday 7-9 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, Columbia.
Ms. Hill died tragically and her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas was wounded on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at their Faubourg Marigny home near the city's French quarter during a house break-in. The couple's two-year-old son Francis was not hurt.
Born in Columbia May 9, 1970, she was the daughter of Jacob Davis Hill, Jr., and Becky Wingard Hill Lewis. Her mother and stepfather Kevin Lewis reared her with her brother Jacob Davis Hill III. She attended Brennen Elementary and Hand Junior High and graduated from Dreher High School and Harvard University. She then trained as an experimental animated filmmaker at California Institute for the Arts. She and her husband, Dr. Paul Gailiunas, a general practitioner, lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for several years before settling in New Orleans.
Helen's films won prizes at home and abroad. An endearing early film, Mouseholes, honoring her grandfather A. K. Wingard after his death, has been especially well received nationally and internationally. Another, Madame Winger Makes a Film, stresses environmentally protective approaches to filmmaking. She was a valued teacher; and her widely distributed publication, Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbooklet, for experimental animators, was supported by a grant from the Canada Council. She won a Rockefeller Foundation Program for Media Arts grant in 2004 to support the making of a film, The Florestine Collection, about a unique African-American seamstress in New Orleans.
Helen was a gift to all who knew her. Her death was a front page story in the Times-Picayune. Permanent Katrina damage to their home had driven Helen, Paul, Poppy, and Rosie, their pig, to temporary sanctuary in Columbia; but Helen's love of New Orleans drew them back in the summer of 2006.
Surviving are her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas; son Francis Pop Gailiunas; mother and stepfather of Columbia; brother Jacob, sister-in-law Brett Mirsky Hill, and nephew Wyatt Davis Hill, all of New York NY; her father of Portland, Maine; a large circle of aunts, uncles, cousins; and a grandmother by marriage.
She was predeceased by her maternal grandparents Albert Kenneth Wingard and Helen Addison Wingard, for whom she was named; and paternal grandparents Jacob Davis Hill and Theo Gause Hill.
(Obituary from www.dunbarfunerals.com, posted 07 Jan 2007; additional information from www.canada.com.)
There is a more complete life history of Helen Hill on Wikipedia.)
Ms. Hill died tragically and her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas was wounded on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at their Faubourg Marigny home near the city's French quarter during a house break-in. The couple's two-year-old son Francis was not hurt.
Born in Columbia May 9, 1970, she was the daughter of Jacob Davis Hill, Jr., and Becky Wingard Hill Lewis. Her mother and stepfather Kevin Lewis reared her with her brother Jacob Davis Hill III. She attended Brennen Elementary and Hand Junior High and graduated from Dreher High School and Harvard University. She then trained as an experimental animated filmmaker at California Institute for the Arts. She and her husband, Dr. Paul Gailiunas, a general practitioner, lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for several years before settling in New Orleans.
Helen's films won prizes at home and abroad. An endearing early film, Mouseholes, honoring her grandfather A. K. Wingard after his death, has been especially well received nationally and internationally. Another, Madame Winger Makes a Film, stresses environmentally protective approaches to filmmaking. She was a valued teacher; and her widely distributed publication, Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbooklet, for experimental animators, was supported by a grant from the Canada Council. She won a Rockefeller Foundation Program for Media Arts grant in 2004 to support the making of a film, The Florestine Collection, about a unique African-American seamstress in New Orleans.
Helen was a gift to all who knew her. Her death was a front page story in the Times-Picayune. Permanent Katrina damage to their home had driven Helen, Paul, Poppy, and Rosie, their pig, to temporary sanctuary in Columbia; but Helen's love of New Orleans drew them back in the summer of 2006.
Surviving are her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas; son Francis Pop Gailiunas; mother and stepfather of Columbia; brother Jacob, sister-in-law Brett Mirsky Hill, and nephew Wyatt Davis Hill, all of New York NY; her father of Portland, Maine; a large circle of aunts, uncles, cousins; and a grandmother by marriage.
She was predeceased by her maternal grandparents Albert Kenneth Wingard and Helen Addison Wingard, for whom she was named; and paternal grandparents Jacob Davis Hill and Theo Gause Hill.
(Obituary from www.dunbarfunerals.com, posted 07 Jan 2007; additional information from www.canada.com.)
There is a more complete life history of Helen Hill on Wikipedia.)
NEW ORLEANS — A funeral service for Helen Wingard Hill, 36, formerly of Columbia SC, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Columbia, with burial following in Elmwood Cemetery and Gardens, Columbia. Visitation will be Tuesday 7-9 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, Columbia.
Ms. Hill died tragically and her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas was wounded on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at their Faubourg Marigny home near the city's French quarter during a house break-in. The couple's two-year-old son Francis was not hurt.
Born in Columbia May 9, 1970, she was the daughter of Jacob Davis Hill, Jr., and Becky Wingard Hill Lewis. Her mother and stepfather Kevin Lewis reared her with her brother Jacob Davis Hill III. She attended Brennen Elementary and Hand Junior High and graduated from Dreher High School and Harvard University. She then trained as an experimental animated filmmaker at California Institute for the Arts. She and her husband, Dr. Paul Gailiunas, a general practitioner, lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for several years before settling in New Orleans.
Helen's films won prizes at home and abroad. An endearing early film, Mouseholes, honoring her grandfather A. K. Wingard after his death, has been especially well received nationally and internationally. Another, Madame Winger Makes a Film, stresses environmentally protective approaches to filmmaking. She was a valued teacher; and her widely distributed publication, Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbooklet, for experimental animators, was supported by a grant from the Canada Council. She won a Rockefeller Foundation Program for Media Arts grant in 2004 to support the making of a film, The Florestine Collection, about a unique African-American seamstress in New Orleans.
Helen was a gift to all who knew her. Her death was a front page story in the Times-Picayune. Permanent Katrina damage to their home had driven Helen, Paul, Poppy, and Rosie, their pig, to temporary sanctuary in Columbia; but Helen's love of New Orleans drew them back in the summer of 2006.
Surviving are her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas; son Francis Pop Gailiunas; mother and stepfather of Columbia; brother Jacob, sister-in-law Brett Mirsky Hill, and nephew Wyatt Davis Hill, all of New York NY; her father of Portland, Maine; a large circle of aunts, uncles, cousins; and a grandmother by marriage.
She was predeceased by her maternal grandparents Albert Kenneth Wingard and Helen Addison Wingard, for whom she was named; and paternal grandparents Jacob Davis Hill and Theo Gause Hill.
(Obituary from www.dunbarfunerals.com, posted 07 Jan 2007; additional information from www.canada.com.)
There is a more complete life history of Helen Hill on Wikipedia.)
Ms. Hill died tragically and her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas was wounded on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at their Faubourg Marigny home near the city's French quarter during a house break-in. The couple's two-year-old son Francis was not hurt.
Born in Columbia May 9, 1970, she was the daughter of Jacob Davis Hill, Jr., and Becky Wingard Hill Lewis. Her mother and stepfather Kevin Lewis reared her with her brother Jacob Davis Hill III. She attended Brennen Elementary and Hand Junior High and graduated from Dreher High School and Harvard University. She then trained as an experimental animated filmmaker at California Institute for the Arts. She and her husband, Dr. Paul Gailiunas, a general practitioner, lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for several years before settling in New Orleans.
Helen's films won prizes at home and abroad. An endearing early film, Mouseholes, honoring her grandfather A. K. Wingard after his death, has been especially well received nationally and internationally. Another, Madame Winger Makes a Film, stresses environmentally protective approaches to filmmaking. She was a valued teacher; and her widely distributed publication, Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbooklet, for experimental animators, was supported by a grant from the Canada Council. She won a Rockefeller Foundation Program for Media Arts grant in 2004 to support the making of a film, The Florestine Collection, about a unique African-American seamstress in New Orleans.
Helen was a gift to all who knew her. Her death was a front page story in the Times-Picayune. Permanent Katrina damage to their home had driven Helen, Paul, Poppy, and Rosie, their pig, to temporary sanctuary in Columbia; but Helen's love of New Orleans drew them back in the summer of 2006.
Surviving are her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas; son Francis Pop Gailiunas; mother and stepfather of Columbia; brother Jacob, sister-in-law Brett Mirsky Hill, and nephew Wyatt Davis Hill, all of New York NY; her father of Portland, Maine; a large circle of aunts, uncles, cousins; and a grandmother by marriage.
She was predeceased by her maternal grandparents Albert Kenneth Wingard and Helen Addison Wingard, for whom she was named; and paternal grandparents Jacob Davis Hill and Theo Gause Hill.
(Obituary from www.dunbarfunerals.com, posted 07 Jan 2007; additional information from www.canada.com.)
There is a more complete life history of Helen Hill on Wikipedia.)
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