Emogene “Gene” Hill Poll
1920 - 1994
Early Life: Emogene "Gene" was born March 26, 1920, in Payson, Utah, to Leonard Allison and Jennie Bird Hill. She graduated with honors from Payson High School and attended LDS Business College.
Life’s Work | Service | Interests: After a whirlwind courtship in wartime Florida, she married Richard Douglas "Dick" Poll in the Salt Lake Temple on November 22, 1943. For many years, she was associated with Brigham Young University and Western Illinois University, where her husband held faculty and administrative appointments. She was president of BYU Women and vice president of WIU Faculty Wives. An active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she taught in all the auxiliary organizations. Her executive positions included Primary president, counselor in several Relief Society presidencies, and president of the Macomb Branch Relief Society in Illinois. She was a tutor in the Provo Library Adult Literacy Program and a friend and counselor to many younger Latter-day Saint women. She traveled widely in North American, Europe, the Far East and around the world, living for two years in England and Germany. A career homemaker, she also managed extended periods of employment as bookkeeper and secretary at Utah Valley Hospital and Brigham Young University. Organizations to which she belonged included the League of Women Voters, Brigham Young Academy Foundation, Mormon History Association, Utah State Historical Society, Utah Heritage Foundation, BYU Emeriti Faculty and the Democrat Party. Emogene "Gene" Hill Poll died at her home in Provo, Utah, on February 15, 1994. She was 73.
Survived By: Her husband; three daughters and their husbands: Marilyn and Gary Bell, Lubbock, TX; Nanette and Terry Allen, Sandy, UT; and Jennifer and Clayton Crawford, Oakland, CA; nine grandchildren; three sisters: Ruth Weight, Springville, UT; and Margaret Francis and Lois Burton, Spanish Fork, UT; and two brothers: LeRoy Hill, Payson and Merrill Hill, Hot Springs, AR.
Service: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chapel Location: Grandview 9th Ward | Provo, Utah
Arrangements: Berg Mortuary of Provo
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills
Original Obituary Published By:
- Deseret News | Salt Lake City, Utah | 16 Feb 1994
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1920 - 1994
Early Life: Emogene "Gene" was born March 26, 1920, in Payson, Utah, to Leonard Allison and Jennie Bird Hill. She graduated with honors from Payson High School and attended LDS Business College.
Life’s Work | Service | Interests: After a whirlwind courtship in wartime Florida, she married Richard Douglas "Dick" Poll in the Salt Lake Temple on November 22, 1943. For many years, she was associated with Brigham Young University and Western Illinois University, where her husband held faculty and administrative appointments. She was president of BYU Women and vice president of WIU Faculty Wives. An active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she taught in all the auxiliary organizations. Her executive positions included Primary president, counselor in several Relief Society presidencies, and president of the Macomb Branch Relief Society in Illinois. She was a tutor in the Provo Library Adult Literacy Program and a friend and counselor to many younger Latter-day Saint women. She traveled widely in North American, Europe, the Far East and around the world, living for two years in England and Germany. A career homemaker, she also managed extended periods of employment as bookkeeper and secretary at Utah Valley Hospital and Brigham Young University. Organizations to which she belonged included the League of Women Voters, Brigham Young Academy Foundation, Mormon History Association, Utah State Historical Society, Utah Heritage Foundation, BYU Emeriti Faculty and the Democrat Party. Emogene "Gene" Hill Poll died at her home in Provo, Utah, on February 15, 1994. She was 73.
Survived By: Her husband; three daughters and their husbands: Marilyn and Gary Bell, Lubbock, TX; Nanette and Terry Allen, Sandy, UT; and Jennifer and Clayton Crawford, Oakland, CA; nine grandchildren; three sisters: Ruth Weight, Springville, UT; and Margaret Francis and Lois Burton, Spanish Fork, UT; and two brothers: LeRoy Hill, Payson and Merrill Hill, Hot Springs, AR.
Service: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chapel Location: Grandview 9th Ward | Provo, Utah
Arrangements: Berg Mortuary of Provo
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills
Original Obituary Published By:
- Deseret News | Salt Lake City, Utah | 16 Feb 1994
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
Emogene “Gene” Hill Poll
1920 - 1994
Early Life: Emogene "Gene" was born March 26, 1920, in Payson, Utah, to Leonard Allison and Jennie Bird Hill. She graduated with honors from Payson High School and attended LDS Business College.
Life’s Work | Service | Interests: After a whirlwind courtship in wartime Florida, she married Richard Douglas "Dick" Poll in the Salt Lake Temple on November 22, 1943. For many years, she was associated with Brigham Young University and Western Illinois University, where her husband held faculty and administrative appointments. She was president of BYU Women and vice president of WIU Faculty Wives. An active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she taught in all the auxiliary organizations. Her executive positions included Primary president, counselor in several Relief Society presidencies, and president of the Macomb Branch Relief Society in Illinois. She was a tutor in the Provo Library Adult Literacy Program and a friend and counselor to many younger Latter-day Saint women. She traveled widely in North American, Europe, the Far East and around the world, living for two years in England and Germany. A career homemaker, she also managed extended periods of employment as bookkeeper and secretary at Utah Valley Hospital and Brigham Young University. Organizations to which she belonged included the League of Women Voters, Brigham Young Academy Foundation, Mormon History Association, Utah State Historical Society, Utah Heritage Foundation, BYU Emeriti Faculty and the Democrat Party. Emogene "Gene" Hill Poll died at her home in Provo, Utah, on February 15, 1994. She was 73.
Survived By: Her husband; three daughters and their husbands: Marilyn and Gary Bell, Lubbock, TX; Nanette and Terry Allen, Sandy, UT; and Jennifer and Clayton Crawford, Oakland, CA; nine grandchildren; three sisters: Ruth Weight, Springville, UT; and Margaret Francis and Lois Burton, Spanish Fork, UT; and two brothers: LeRoy Hill, Payson and Merrill Hill, Hot Springs, AR.
Service: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chapel Location: Grandview 9th Ward | Provo, Utah
Arrangements: Berg Mortuary of Provo
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills
Original Obituary Published By:
- Deseret News | Salt Lake City, Utah | 16 Feb 1994
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
1920 - 1994
Early Life: Emogene "Gene" was born March 26, 1920, in Payson, Utah, to Leonard Allison and Jennie Bird Hill. She graduated with honors from Payson High School and attended LDS Business College.
Life’s Work | Service | Interests: After a whirlwind courtship in wartime Florida, she married Richard Douglas "Dick" Poll in the Salt Lake Temple on November 22, 1943. For many years, she was associated with Brigham Young University and Western Illinois University, where her husband held faculty and administrative appointments. She was president of BYU Women and vice president of WIU Faculty Wives. An active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she taught in all the auxiliary organizations. Her executive positions included Primary president, counselor in several Relief Society presidencies, and president of the Macomb Branch Relief Society in Illinois. She was a tutor in the Provo Library Adult Literacy Program and a friend and counselor to many younger Latter-day Saint women. She traveled widely in North American, Europe, the Far East and around the world, living for two years in England and Germany. A career homemaker, she also managed extended periods of employment as bookkeeper and secretary at Utah Valley Hospital and Brigham Young University. Organizations to which she belonged included the League of Women Voters, Brigham Young Academy Foundation, Mormon History Association, Utah State Historical Society, Utah Heritage Foundation, BYU Emeriti Faculty and the Democrat Party. Emogene "Gene" Hill Poll died at her home in Provo, Utah, on February 15, 1994. She was 73.
Survived By: Her husband; three daughters and their husbands: Marilyn and Gary Bell, Lubbock, TX; Nanette and Terry Allen, Sandy, UT; and Jennifer and Clayton Crawford, Oakland, CA; nine grandchildren; three sisters: Ruth Weight, Springville, UT; and Margaret Francis and Lois Burton, Spanish Fork, UT; and two brothers: LeRoy Hill, Payson and Merrill Hill, Hot Springs, AR.
Service: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chapel Location: Grandview 9th Ward | Provo, Utah
Arrangements: Berg Mortuary of Provo
Interment: East Lawn Memorial Hills
Original Obituary Published By:
- Deseret News | Salt Lake City, Utah | 16 Feb 1994
Bio compiled by: Annie Duckett Hundley
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