This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: hill, campbell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qg.2ADE/410 Message Board Post: Rexburg Standard Journal, 05/28/03 Gertrude Volly Campbell Hill, 87, of Ashton, died Monday, May 26, 2003, at the Ashton Living Center following a lengthy illness. She was born April 3, 1916, in Chester, to Joseph and Alberta Campbell. The family lived in Chester. She graduated from Sugar-Salem High School in Sugar City in 1934 and Ricks College in Rexburg in 1936. She continued her education at the University of Idaho and Montana State University. On Jan. 11, 1943, she married Less W. Hill in Boise. They lived in Ashton where she was an active partner to Less in the livestock and farming business in Fremont, Jefferson and Clark counties. As part of this partnership she moved the family each spring to Terreton where she cooked for countless lambing crews. She was also a dedicated educator, teaching elementary school for several years in Malad and Annis before serving on the Fremont County School Board in 1959. Following this, she returned to teaching in Ashton where she spent several years teaching third grade. She loved to travel, play cards, and support her grandchildren. She was an active member of the Eastern Star, PEO Chapter AS, the Ashton Community United Methodist Church and the Ashton Senior Citizen's Center. She is survived by a sister, Beatrice Trupp of Rexburg; daughters, Sonja (Paul-deceased) Cherry of Moscow and Ashton, and Jan (Dick) Seeley of Ashton; grandchildren, Magen (Jonathan) Seeley-Marotz of Cheyenne, Wyo., Tiffany (Des) Seeley-Case of Jerome, Portia Jenkins of Moscow, Andrea (Andy) Taylor of San Jose, Calif., and Cade Cherry of Enfield, Conn.; and three great-grandchildren, Allison Jenkins, Kelsey Jenkins and Ethan Taylor. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three sisters, a brother and a son-in-law. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Ashton Community United Methodist Church. Burial will be at the Pineview Cemetery under the direction of Baxter Funeral Home. The family will meet with friends from 9:30-10:45 a.m. at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Ashton Community United Methodist Church or the Ashton Living Center.