she was the first woman Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota. This is address for her Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Hillard
From the Rapid City Journal, October 24, 2007:
Carole Hillard died like she would have wanted to - in the middle of an adventure, said her son, the Rev. Todd Hillard.
Carole Hillard, a former South Dakota lieutenant governor, legislator and Rapid City Council member, died early Thursday morning in a Swiss hospital of complications following a broken neck suffered in a sail-boating accident.
"She just had a vivacious zeal for life," her son Todd Hillard said Thursday. "In a way, she chose to die this way. She knew that there were risks to the kind of life she lived, but she wanted her life to count for something that mattered."
Hillard had made the boating trip with friends on the Adriatic Sea after traveling to Turkmenistan, where she had put on a conference on federalism.
Hillard, 71, was known after leaving state government for her whirlwind travel throughout the world to promote democracy.
She fell off some steps on a small sailboat Oct. 8, hitting her head on the hard wooden back of a couch below deck. The fall broke a vertebra in her neck and three ribs.
She was taken to a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia, where she underwent surgery Oct. 10. Although there were fears initially that Hillard would be paralyzed, she had full movement after the surgery.
She left Croatia a few days later for Switzerland, where she expected to rest before returning to Rapid City, family members said.
However, last Friday, Oct. 19, Hillard was admitted to a local hospital in Switzerland, where doctors discovered she had pneumonia and a bacterial blood infection. She experienced a sudden drop in blood pressure and a fever. She was airlifted Tuesday to University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, Todd Hillard said.
She was unresponsive when she arrived at that hospital, and doctors found that she had suffered a stroke. She had several more strokes and died at 1 a.m. MDT Thursday in the presence of family members and friends.
The bacterial blood infection was a primary problem, Todd Hillard said. But he said he did not know for sure whether the infection was related to her surgery in Croatia.
Hillard's body will be cremated and returned to Rapid City, where a memorial service will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1.
Memorial services for Carole Hillard in Rapid City will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center theater. A reception will follow.
Hillard is survived by her five children, Lornell Haggerty, J. Eddie Hillard, Todd Hillard, Sue Hauff and David Hillard; 18 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Growing up in the Hillard household was always an adventure, Todd Hillard said. "Some of my earliest memories were in the back of a station wagon or the back of a camper exploring different corners of the continent," he said.
"Her life taught us that one person can make a big difference in the world and that each of us has a responsibility to make the world a better place. She started from the grass roots … with community service in Rapid City," he said. "She worked her way to very near the top."
Hillard helped coordinate a protection network for battered women before there was a women's shelter in Rapid City. "That was where she got her start, picking up battered women in the middle of the night and making sure they got a safe place to stay," Todd said. "I just remember the phone calls, and her and dad or my older brother taking off into the night."
After stints on the Rapid City Council and in the Legislature, Hillard was elected lieutenant governor during the second two terms of Gov. Bill Janklow from 1995-2003. In addition to presiding over the Senate, she traveled the state to appear on Janklow's behalf at events big and small.
In the last decade, Hillard served as an international consultant, traveling to more than 60 countries on behalf of the U.S. State Department as well as nongovernmental organizations. She helped supervise the January elections in the West Bank and traveled to Afghanistan in March to help create small business in Kabul.
She understood the risks of traveling to some remote regions, Todd Hillard said.
"She was not afraid of dying," he said. "She was afraid of not living."
In her last e-mail to her family, written after her surgery in Zagreb, Carole Hillard talked about her luck being able to walk out of the hospital despite nearly severing her spinal cord.
And she noted the irony of her boat accident. "Ponder this - I go hang gliding over Rio, sky diving with the Blue Angels, did a 300-foot bungee jump over Victoria Falls and I walked away with just a huge smile on my face. Last week however, I was thrown off a 3 foot step into the galley. I broke my neck (literally), broke 3 ribs, cut my face and totally blackened one arm."
"So the question is - are we not safer living the daring life?" she wrote. "Is it better to be bird than a turtle as we sojourn thru life?"
Carole Hillard: key dates in an international life
* Aug. 14, 1936: Born Carole Rypkema in Deadwood
* 1954: Graduated from Deadwood High School
* 1957: Earned a degree in education from the University of Arizona and married John Hillard
* 1967-1982: owned Rapid Chevrolet with husband John
* 1979: Appointed board member of the South Dakota Children's Home Society
* 1981: Appointed to state Board of Charities and Corrections by Gov. Bill Janklow
* 1982: Earned master's degree in education from South Dakota State University
* 1984: Earned master's degree in political science from the University of South Dakota
* 1985-1992: Member of the Rapid City Council (and the first woman to serve as president of the council)
* 1986: Meets with President Reagan as a member of the President's Child Safety Partnership (represents a four-state region)
* 1991-1994: Member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (Serves on the city council and in the Legislature simultaneously for a term)
* 1995-2003: Lieutenant governor of South Dakota, the first and only woman to hold the office
* 1996: Lost Republican primary for the U.S. House to John Thune. Later in the year, husband John Hillard dies after a long illness.
* 1997: Begins self-described career as "humanitarian junkie," first by volunteering for the Peace Corps to work on elections in the Balkans. It would lead to work in more than 60 countries over the next decade.
* January 2007: Supervises elections in the West Bank
* March 2007: Works to establish small businesses in Kabul, Afghanistan
* September 2007: Organizes conference on federalism in Turkmenistan
* Oct. 25, 2007: Dies at University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, after complications following a boating accident in the Adriatic on Oct. 8. Gov. Mike Rounds orders flags flown at half-mast statewide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Hillard
From the Rapid City Journal, October 24, 2007:
Carole Hillard died like she would have wanted to - in the middle of an adventure, said her son, the Rev. Todd Hillard.
Carole Hillard, a former South Dakota lieutenant governor, legislator and Rapid City Council member, died early Thursday morning in a Swiss hospital of complications following a broken neck suffered in a sail-boating accident.
"She just had a vivacious zeal for life," her son Todd Hillard said Thursday. "In a way, she chose to die this way. She knew that there were risks to the kind of life she lived, but she wanted her life to count for something that mattered."
Hillard had made the boating trip with friends on the Adriatic Sea after traveling to Turkmenistan, where she had put on a conference on federalism.
Hillard, 71, was known after leaving state government for her whirlwind travel throughout the world to promote democracy.
She fell off some steps on a small sailboat Oct. 8, hitting her head on the hard wooden back of a couch below deck. The fall broke a vertebra in her neck and three ribs.
She was taken to a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia, where she underwent surgery Oct. 10. Although there were fears initially that Hillard would be paralyzed, she had full movement after the surgery.
She left Croatia a few days later for Switzerland, where she expected to rest before returning to Rapid City, family members said.
However, last Friday, Oct. 19, Hillard was admitted to a local hospital in Switzerland, where doctors discovered she had pneumonia and a bacterial blood infection. She experienced a sudden drop in blood pressure and a fever. She was airlifted Tuesday to University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, Todd Hillard said.
She was unresponsive when she arrived at that hospital, and doctors found that she had suffered a stroke. She had several more strokes and died at 1 a.m. MDT Thursday in the presence of family members and friends.
The bacterial blood infection was a primary problem, Todd Hillard said. But he said he did not know for sure whether the infection was related to her surgery in Croatia.
Hillard's body will be cremated and returned to Rapid City, where a memorial service will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1.
Memorial services for Carole Hillard in Rapid City will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center theater. A reception will follow.
Hillard is survived by her five children, Lornell Haggerty, J. Eddie Hillard, Todd Hillard, Sue Hauff and David Hillard; 18 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Growing up in the Hillard household was always an adventure, Todd Hillard said. "Some of my earliest memories were in the back of a station wagon or the back of a camper exploring different corners of the continent," he said.
"Her life taught us that one person can make a big difference in the world and that each of us has a responsibility to make the world a better place. She started from the grass roots … with community service in Rapid City," he said. "She worked her way to very near the top."
Hillard helped coordinate a protection network for battered women before there was a women's shelter in Rapid City. "That was where she got her start, picking up battered women in the middle of the night and making sure they got a safe place to stay," Todd said. "I just remember the phone calls, and her and dad or my older brother taking off into the night."
After stints on the Rapid City Council and in the Legislature, Hillard was elected lieutenant governor during the second two terms of Gov. Bill Janklow from 1995-2003. In addition to presiding over the Senate, she traveled the state to appear on Janklow's behalf at events big and small.
In the last decade, Hillard served as an international consultant, traveling to more than 60 countries on behalf of the U.S. State Department as well as nongovernmental organizations. She helped supervise the January elections in the West Bank and traveled to Afghanistan in March to help create small business in Kabul.
She understood the risks of traveling to some remote regions, Todd Hillard said.
"She was not afraid of dying," he said. "She was afraid of not living."
In her last e-mail to her family, written after her surgery in Zagreb, Carole Hillard talked about her luck being able to walk out of the hospital despite nearly severing her spinal cord.
And she noted the irony of her boat accident. "Ponder this - I go hang gliding over Rio, sky diving with the Blue Angels, did a 300-foot bungee jump over Victoria Falls and I walked away with just a huge smile on my face. Last week however, I was thrown off a 3 foot step into the galley. I broke my neck (literally), broke 3 ribs, cut my face and totally blackened one arm."
"So the question is - are we not safer living the daring life?" she wrote. "Is it better to be bird than a turtle as we sojourn thru life?"
Carole Hillard: key dates in an international life
* Aug. 14, 1936: Born Carole Rypkema in Deadwood
* 1954: Graduated from Deadwood High School
* 1957: Earned a degree in education from the University of Arizona and married John Hillard
* 1967-1982: owned Rapid Chevrolet with husband John
* 1979: Appointed board member of the South Dakota Children's Home Society
* 1981: Appointed to state Board of Charities and Corrections by Gov. Bill Janklow
* 1982: Earned master's degree in education from South Dakota State University
* 1984: Earned master's degree in political science from the University of South Dakota
* 1985-1992: Member of the Rapid City Council (and the first woman to serve as president of the council)
* 1986: Meets with President Reagan as a member of the President's Child Safety Partnership (represents a four-state region)
* 1991-1994: Member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (Serves on the city council and in the Legislature simultaneously for a term)
* 1995-2003: Lieutenant governor of South Dakota, the first and only woman to hold the office
* 1996: Lost Republican primary for the U.S. House to John Thune. Later in the year, husband John Hillard dies after a long illness.
* 1997: Begins self-described career as "humanitarian junkie," first by volunteering for the Peace Corps to work on elections in the Balkans. It would lead to work in more than 60 countries over the next decade.
* January 2007: Supervises elections in the West Bank
* March 2007: Works to establish small businesses in Kabul, Afghanistan
* September 2007: Organizes conference on federalism in Turkmenistan
* Oct. 25, 2007: Dies at University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, after complications following a boating accident in the Adriatic on Oct. 8. Gov. Mike Rounds orders flags flown at half-mast statewide.
she was the first woman Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota. This is address for her Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Hillard
From the Rapid City Journal, October 24, 2007:
Carole Hillard died like she would have wanted to - in the middle of an adventure, said her son, the Rev. Todd Hillard.
Carole Hillard, a former South Dakota lieutenant governor, legislator and Rapid City Council member, died early Thursday morning in a Swiss hospital of complications following a broken neck suffered in a sail-boating accident.
"She just had a vivacious zeal for life," her son Todd Hillard said Thursday. "In a way, she chose to die this way. She knew that there were risks to the kind of life she lived, but she wanted her life to count for something that mattered."
Hillard had made the boating trip with friends on the Adriatic Sea after traveling to Turkmenistan, where she had put on a conference on federalism.
Hillard, 71, was known after leaving state government for her whirlwind travel throughout the world to promote democracy.
She fell off some steps on a small sailboat Oct. 8, hitting her head on the hard wooden back of a couch below deck. The fall broke a vertebra in her neck and three ribs.
She was taken to a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia, where she underwent surgery Oct. 10. Although there were fears initially that Hillard would be paralyzed, she had full movement after the surgery.
She left Croatia a few days later for Switzerland, where she expected to rest before returning to Rapid City, family members said.
However, last Friday, Oct. 19, Hillard was admitted to a local hospital in Switzerland, where doctors discovered she had pneumonia and a bacterial blood infection. She experienced a sudden drop in blood pressure and a fever. She was airlifted Tuesday to University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, Todd Hillard said.
She was unresponsive when she arrived at that hospital, and doctors found that she had suffered a stroke. She had several more strokes and died at 1 a.m. MDT Thursday in the presence of family members and friends.
The bacterial blood infection was a primary problem, Todd Hillard said. But he said he did not know for sure whether the infection was related to her surgery in Croatia.
Hillard's body will be cremated and returned to Rapid City, where a memorial service will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1.
Memorial services for Carole Hillard in Rapid City will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center theater. A reception will follow.
Hillard is survived by her five children, Lornell Haggerty, J. Eddie Hillard, Todd Hillard, Sue Hauff and David Hillard; 18 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Growing up in the Hillard household was always an adventure, Todd Hillard said. "Some of my earliest memories were in the back of a station wagon or the back of a camper exploring different corners of the continent," he said.
"Her life taught us that one person can make a big difference in the world and that each of us has a responsibility to make the world a better place. She started from the grass roots … with community service in Rapid City," he said. "She worked her way to very near the top."
Hillard helped coordinate a protection network for battered women before there was a women's shelter in Rapid City. "That was where she got her start, picking up battered women in the middle of the night and making sure they got a safe place to stay," Todd said. "I just remember the phone calls, and her and dad or my older brother taking off into the night."
After stints on the Rapid City Council and in the Legislature, Hillard was elected lieutenant governor during the second two terms of Gov. Bill Janklow from 1995-2003. In addition to presiding over the Senate, she traveled the state to appear on Janklow's behalf at events big and small.
In the last decade, Hillard served as an international consultant, traveling to more than 60 countries on behalf of the U.S. State Department as well as nongovernmental organizations. She helped supervise the January elections in the West Bank and traveled to Afghanistan in March to help create small business in Kabul.
She understood the risks of traveling to some remote regions, Todd Hillard said.
"She was not afraid of dying," he said. "She was afraid of not living."
In her last e-mail to her family, written after her surgery in Zagreb, Carole Hillard talked about her luck being able to walk out of the hospital despite nearly severing her spinal cord.
And she noted the irony of her boat accident. "Ponder this - I go hang gliding over Rio, sky diving with the Blue Angels, did a 300-foot bungee jump over Victoria Falls and I walked away with just a huge smile on my face. Last week however, I was thrown off a 3 foot step into the galley. I broke my neck (literally), broke 3 ribs, cut my face and totally blackened one arm."
"So the question is - are we not safer living the daring life?" she wrote. "Is it better to be bird than a turtle as we sojourn thru life?"
Carole Hillard: key dates in an international life
* Aug. 14, 1936: Born Carole Rypkema in Deadwood
* 1954: Graduated from Deadwood High School
* 1957: Earned a degree in education from the University of Arizona and married John Hillard
* 1967-1982: owned Rapid Chevrolet with husband John
* 1979: Appointed board member of the South Dakota Children's Home Society
* 1981: Appointed to state Board of Charities and Corrections by Gov. Bill Janklow
* 1982: Earned master's degree in education from South Dakota State University
* 1984: Earned master's degree in political science from the University of South Dakota
* 1985-1992: Member of the Rapid City Council (and the first woman to serve as president of the council)
* 1986: Meets with President Reagan as a member of the President's Child Safety Partnership (represents a four-state region)
* 1991-1994: Member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (Serves on the city council and in the Legislature simultaneously for a term)
* 1995-2003: Lieutenant governor of South Dakota, the first and only woman to hold the office
* 1996: Lost Republican primary for the U.S. House to John Thune. Later in the year, husband John Hillard dies after a long illness.
* 1997: Begins self-described career as "humanitarian junkie," first by volunteering for the Peace Corps to work on elections in the Balkans. It would lead to work in more than 60 countries over the next decade.
* January 2007: Supervises elections in the West Bank
* March 2007: Works to establish small businesses in Kabul, Afghanistan
* September 2007: Organizes conference on federalism in Turkmenistan
* Oct. 25, 2007: Dies at University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, after complications following a boating accident in the Adriatic on Oct. 8. Gov. Mike Rounds orders flags flown at half-mast statewide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Hillard
From the Rapid City Journal, October 24, 2007:
Carole Hillard died like she would have wanted to - in the middle of an adventure, said her son, the Rev. Todd Hillard.
Carole Hillard, a former South Dakota lieutenant governor, legislator and Rapid City Council member, died early Thursday morning in a Swiss hospital of complications following a broken neck suffered in a sail-boating accident.
"She just had a vivacious zeal for life," her son Todd Hillard said Thursday. "In a way, she chose to die this way. She knew that there were risks to the kind of life she lived, but she wanted her life to count for something that mattered."
Hillard had made the boating trip with friends on the Adriatic Sea after traveling to Turkmenistan, where she had put on a conference on federalism.
Hillard, 71, was known after leaving state government for her whirlwind travel throughout the world to promote democracy.
She fell off some steps on a small sailboat Oct. 8, hitting her head on the hard wooden back of a couch below deck. The fall broke a vertebra in her neck and three ribs.
She was taken to a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia, where she underwent surgery Oct. 10. Although there were fears initially that Hillard would be paralyzed, she had full movement after the surgery.
She left Croatia a few days later for Switzerland, where she expected to rest before returning to Rapid City, family members said.
However, last Friday, Oct. 19, Hillard was admitted to a local hospital in Switzerland, where doctors discovered she had pneumonia and a bacterial blood infection. She experienced a sudden drop in blood pressure and a fever. She was airlifted Tuesday to University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, Todd Hillard said.
She was unresponsive when she arrived at that hospital, and doctors found that she had suffered a stroke. She had several more strokes and died at 1 a.m. MDT Thursday in the presence of family members and friends.
The bacterial blood infection was a primary problem, Todd Hillard said. But he said he did not know for sure whether the infection was related to her surgery in Croatia.
Hillard's body will be cremated and returned to Rapid City, where a memorial service will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1.
Memorial services for Carole Hillard in Rapid City will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center theater. A reception will follow.
Hillard is survived by her five children, Lornell Haggerty, J. Eddie Hillard, Todd Hillard, Sue Hauff and David Hillard; 18 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Growing up in the Hillard household was always an adventure, Todd Hillard said. "Some of my earliest memories were in the back of a station wagon or the back of a camper exploring different corners of the continent," he said.
"Her life taught us that one person can make a big difference in the world and that each of us has a responsibility to make the world a better place. She started from the grass roots … with community service in Rapid City," he said. "She worked her way to very near the top."
Hillard helped coordinate a protection network for battered women before there was a women's shelter in Rapid City. "That was where she got her start, picking up battered women in the middle of the night and making sure they got a safe place to stay," Todd said. "I just remember the phone calls, and her and dad or my older brother taking off into the night."
After stints on the Rapid City Council and in the Legislature, Hillard was elected lieutenant governor during the second two terms of Gov. Bill Janklow from 1995-2003. In addition to presiding over the Senate, she traveled the state to appear on Janklow's behalf at events big and small.
In the last decade, Hillard served as an international consultant, traveling to more than 60 countries on behalf of the U.S. State Department as well as nongovernmental organizations. She helped supervise the January elections in the West Bank and traveled to Afghanistan in March to help create small business in Kabul.
She understood the risks of traveling to some remote regions, Todd Hillard said.
"She was not afraid of dying," he said. "She was afraid of not living."
In her last e-mail to her family, written after her surgery in Zagreb, Carole Hillard talked about her luck being able to walk out of the hospital despite nearly severing her spinal cord.
And she noted the irony of her boat accident. "Ponder this - I go hang gliding over Rio, sky diving with the Blue Angels, did a 300-foot bungee jump over Victoria Falls and I walked away with just a huge smile on my face. Last week however, I was thrown off a 3 foot step into the galley. I broke my neck (literally), broke 3 ribs, cut my face and totally blackened one arm."
"So the question is - are we not safer living the daring life?" she wrote. "Is it better to be bird than a turtle as we sojourn thru life?"
Carole Hillard: key dates in an international life
* Aug. 14, 1936: Born Carole Rypkema in Deadwood
* 1954: Graduated from Deadwood High School
* 1957: Earned a degree in education from the University of Arizona and married John Hillard
* 1967-1982: owned Rapid Chevrolet with husband John
* 1979: Appointed board member of the South Dakota Children's Home Society
* 1981: Appointed to state Board of Charities and Corrections by Gov. Bill Janklow
* 1982: Earned master's degree in education from South Dakota State University
* 1984: Earned master's degree in political science from the University of South Dakota
* 1985-1992: Member of the Rapid City Council (and the first woman to serve as president of the council)
* 1986: Meets with President Reagan as a member of the President's Child Safety Partnership (represents a four-state region)
* 1991-1994: Member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (Serves on the city council and in the Legislature simultaneously for a term)
* 1995-2003: Lieutenant governor of South Dakota, the first and only woman to hold the office
* 1996: Lost Republican primary for the U.S. House to John Thune. Later in the year, husband John Hillard dies after a long illness.
* 1997: Begins self-described career as "humanitarian junkie," first by volunteering for the Peace Corps to work on elections in the Balkans. It would lead to work in more than 60 countries over the next decade.
* January 2007: Supervises elections in the West Bank
* March 2007: Works to establish small businesses in Kabul, Afghanistan
* September 2007: Organizes conference on federalism in Turkmenistan
* Oct. 25, 2007: Dies at University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, after complications following a boating accident in the Adriatic on Oct. 8. Gov. Mike Rounds orders flags flown at half-mast statewide.
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