Ellen Hill
December 31, 1925 - July 8, 2021
Lou Ellen Hill was born in Wilmington, NC on December 31, 1925 to parents Lou Velia Collier Smith and William Ralph Smith. Ellen, as she preferred to be called, was the middle child of three with an older sister Margaret Lee "Polly" Smith (1924 – 1937), and a younger brother William Smith (1931 – 2018).
In her youth, Ellen, performed Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania, the Fairy Queen in 1937 at Greenfield Park in her lifelong hometown of Wilmington, NC.
In her teens Ellen studied at Flora McDonald's nurse training program during World War II. Nursing and helping those in need were her great, lifelong passions. Over the course of her career she was a nurse in the new Hanover County Hospital, in psychiatric, private duty, Public Health and Hospice nursing. In the 1990's, Wilmington had a surge of drug abuse related issues, yet did not have a methadone clinic. So Ellen spearheaded the initiative to set one up at Coastal Horizons, helping thousands of Wilmingtonians in the course of the many decades since.
She married Robert A. Hill in 1949. Together they had three children. Ellen is survived by Robin (Novak), Roger (with wife MaryBeth), and Alan, as well as by her nephew Davidson Smith and her granddaughter, Margaux.
An artist to her core, Ellen was a gifted oil-painter and a strong supporter of The Historical Wilmington Foundation. Her favorite contribution was when she petitioned the City Council to not tear down the historic Northrop-Oldham House (c. 1829) on S. 2nd Street, but to let her buy it and restore it to its original glory. She and her son Roger spent the next ten years doing just that. Later, in 1997 her house was featured in the Old Wilmington by Candlelight Christmas House Tour.
Ellen passed away peacefully in her sleep Thursday morning, July 8, 2021.
December 31, 1925 - July 8, 2021
Lou Ellen Hill was born in Wilmington, NC on December 31, 1925 to parents Lou Velia Collier Smith and William Ralph Smith. Ellen, as she preferred to be called, was the middle child of three with an older sister Margaret Lee "Polly" Smith (1924 – 1937), and a younger brother William Smith (1931 – 2018).
In her youth, Ellen, performed Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania, the Fairy Queen in 1937 at Greenfield Park in her lifelong hometown of Wilmington, NC.
In her teens Ellen studied at Flora McDonald's nurse training program during World War II. Nursing and helping those in need were her great, lifelong passions. Over the course of her career she was a nurse in the new Hanover County Hospital, in psychiatric, private duty, Public Health and Hospice nursing. In the 1990's, Wilmington had a surge of drug abuse related issues, yet did not have a methadone clinic. So Ellen spearheaded the initiative to set one up at Coastal Horizons, helping thousands of Wilmingtonians in the course of the many decades since.
She married Robert A. Hill in 1949. Together they had three children. Ellen is survived by Robin (Novak), Roger (with wife MaryBeth), and Alan, as well as by her nephew Davidson Smith and her granddaughter, Margaux.
An artist to her core, Ellen was a gifted oil-painter and a strong supporter of The Historical Wilmington Foundation. Her favorite contribution was when she petitioned the City Council to not tear down the historic Northrop-Oldham House (c. 1829) on S. 2nd Street, but to let her buy it and restore it to its original glory. She and her son Roger spent the next ten years doing just that. Later, in 1997 her house was featured in the Old Wilmington by Candlelight Christmas House Tour.
Ellen passed away peacefully in her sleep Thursday morning, July 8, 2021.
Ellen Hill
December 31, 1925 - July 8, 2021
Lou Ellen Hill was born in Wilmington, NC on December 31, 1925 to parents Lou Velia Collier Smith and William Ralph Smith. Ellen, as she preferred to be called, was the middle child of three with an older sister Margaret Lee "Polly" Smith (1924 – 1937), and a younger brother William Smith (1931 – 2018).
In her youth, Ellen, performed Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania, the Fairy Queen in 1937 at Greenfield Park in her lifelong hometown of Wilmington, NC.
In her teens Ellen studied at Flora McDonald's nurse training program during World War II. Nursing and helping those in need were her great, lifelong passions. Over the course of her career she was a nurse in the new Hanover County Hospital, in psychiatric, private duty, Public Health and Hospice nursing. In the 1990's, Wilmington had a surge of drug abuse related issues, yet did not have a methadone clinic. So Ellen spearheaded the initiative to set one up at Coastal Horizons, helping thousands of Wilmingtonians in the course of the many decades since.
She married Robert A. Hill in 1949. Together they had three children. Ellen is survived by Robin (Novak), Roger (with wife MaryBeth), and Alan, as well as by her nephew Davidson Smith and her granddaughter, Margaux.
An artist to her core, Ellen was a gifted oil-painter and a strong supporter of The Historical Wilmington Foundation. Her favorite contribution was when she petitioned the City Council to not tear down the historic Northrop-Oldham House (c. 1829) on S. 2nd Street, but to let her buy it and restore it to its original glory. She and her son Roger spent the next ten years doing just that. Later, in 1997 her house was featured in the Old Wilmington by Candlelight Christmas House Tour.
Ellen passed away peacefully in her sleep Thursday morning, July 8, 2021.
December 31, 1925 - July 8, 2021
Lou Ellen Hill was born in Wilmington, NC on December 31, 1925 to parents Lou Velia Collier Smith and William Ralph Smith. Ellen, as she preferred to be called, was the middle child of three with an older sister Margaret Lee "Polly" Smith (1924 – 1937), and a younger brother William Smith (1931 – 2018).
In her youth, Ellen, performed Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream as Titania, the Fairy Queen in 1937 at Greenfield Park in her lifelong hometown of Wilmington, NC.
In her teens Ellen studied at Flora McDonald's nurse training program during World War II. Nursing and helping those in need were her great, lifelong passions. Over the course of her career she was a nurse in the new Hanover County Hospital, in psychiatric, private duty, Public Health and Hospice nursing. In the 1990's, Wilmington had a surge of drug abuse related issues, yet did not have a methadone clinic. So Ellen spearheaded the initiative to set one up at Coastal Horizons, helping thousands of Wilmingtonians in the course of the many decades since.
She married Robert A. Hill in 1949. Together they had three children. Ellen is survived by Robin (Novak), Roger (with wife MaryBeth), and Alan, as well as by her nephew Davidson Smith and her granddaughter, Margaux.
An artist to her core, Ellen was a gifted oil-painter and a strong supporter of The Historical Wilmington Foundation. Her favorite contribution was when she petitioned the City Council to not tear down the historic Northrop-Oldham House (c. 1829) on S. 2nd Street, but to let her buy it and restore it to its original glory. She and her son Roger spent the next ten years doing just that. Later, in 1997 her house was featured in the Old Wilmington by Candlelight Christmas House Tour.
Ellen passed away peacefully in her sleep Thursday morning, July 8, 2021.
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