Class of 1940
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Martha Millikan Cox
Martha Jane Millikan Cox, 89, of Clarkton, N.C., died Saturday, February 2, 2008.
(Posted March 27, 2008)
Richard Hastings Hill
Richard Hastings Hill, M.D. brought an ancestry traced to their arrival in this New World, through the late 1600's immigration at the Jamestown settlement in advance of increased religious belief persecution. Their provision, as recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution, continued of non-combative, battlefield care to both colonial and British wounded preceding General Cornwallis' Yorktown defeat. They continued their migration accompanying Daniel Boone in exploration of the Appalachian Mountains, seeking passage routes from North Carolina up to the Ohio River Valley. This resulted in his family's late 1700's migration to the Indian territories of eastern Indiana. They actively supported the escape and shelter of those seeking freedom of racial oppression by traveling the secret routes of the Underground Railroad. All of this helped guide him in establishing his own contributions to this society and his fellow man through his family's religious influence among the Society of Friends, culminating with his achievement as a physician, a country doctor, specializing in obstetrics and who even made "house calls", has now passed away this 26th day of February, 2008, at the age of 89, at the Manor of the Plains in Dodge City, Kansas. His birth was June 16, 1918 in New Castle, Indiana to Elbert Nathan Hill and Laura Lee Hedges Hill. During his childhood, he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout with bronze palm, while working summers as a "gandy dancer" on the Indiana railroads. He began his preparatory educational studies at the Westtown School, Westtown, Pennsylvania, continuing his undergraduate studies at the Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. He graduated at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas with his Bachelor's degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Then continued his education, earning his Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, Kansas. He began his residency at the Kansas City General Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri and while delivering babies, he met his assisting Registered Nurse, whom now is his wife and widow after 63 years of marriage. His residency was completed at the George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C..
He reported for his country's service at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, serving in the United States Army during World War II as a Physician with rank of Captain, stationed at Manila in the Philippines. He treated surrendering Japanese and repatriated, allied prisoners recovering from the suffering and brutalities experienced at Bataan and Corregidor. Upon arrival in the United States through the port of San Francisco as a veteran of foreign wars, he returned to Kansas and chose to establish his private practice as a small businessman in Meade, Kansas, located upon the high plains of the southwest Kansas prairies, serving this regional area as a physician for nearly 45 years. He is the first person whom nearly 3,000 newborn children first met from among the surrounding Kansas communities of Meade, Fowler and Plains and then, there were those home deliveries of infants in addition too!.
He actively served as President and member of the Iroquois Medical Society, representing southwest Kansas. He was a quarter-horse enthusiast; a challenged golfer; prior President of Meade Kiwanis Club; a USD 226 School Board member; dedicated contributor and leader in the expansion of physical and media resources at the Meade, Kansas library as a Board Officer and member for twenty-four years, and he was also a repeated graduation speaker at local high schools. He served as Meade County Coroner for twenty-five years and County Health Officer for fifteen years. He is a past Counselor for the 15th district of the Kansas State Medical Society and past board member of Kansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield. In 1975 he was chosen as "Man of the Year" by the Meade Chamber of Commerce, and he was an active member of the American Medical Society. Dr. Richard Hastings Hill is survived by his widow, Rose Marie Peine Hill, his son, David M. Hill, his daughters, Rebecca Jo Hill Bredfeldt and Carol Ann Hill Hatfield, recently deceased.
(Posted February 27, 2008)
Julia Sperling Coons
Julia Sperling Coons, 88, died Monday, Dec. 10, 2007, at Friends Fellowship Community where she had resided since 2002. She was born Jan. 17, 1919, in Richmond to Raymond and Frank Gaynelle Edmundson Sperling and lived in Richmond her entire life. She graduated from Morton High School in 1936 and from Earlham College in 1940. She attended the University of Colorado for graduate studies. She taught mathematics at Richmond High School from 1943-1954 and at Pleasant View Junior High School from 1965-1981. During the early years of World War II, she was employed at Perfect Circle in Hagerstown. She also taught school in Felicity, Ohio, and Noblesville, Ind. Following retirement, she was rarely idle. She served as president of the Residents' Association at Friends Fellowship Community from 2003 until her death. She was the longest-tenured member of First Presbyterian Church and was also a member of the Collegiate Club, the Magazine Club and the Indiana Retired Teachers Association. Survivors include one daughter, Sarah Coons Lindsay and husband Clark of Arlington, Va.; one son, John Sperling Coons of Flagstaff, Ariz. She was preceded in death by her husband of 47 years, J. Richard Coons, who died in 2000.
(Posted December 13, 2007)
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