Alvera Mary Albracht Hill, age 96, died on May 5, 2022 at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa surrounded by her loving family.
She was born on June 26, 1925 in Nazareth, Texas to John and Anna Schaecher Albracht. The family moved back to their home state of Nebraska with their eight children including their six-month-old, Alvera. Alvera attended Saint Bernard School and lived in rural Saint Bernard on a farm. She always said they walked five miles to school and back and her children thought she was making that up until, years later, they were out there and measured the distance in their car. It was exactly five miles. She felt vindicated after all those years. She later moved to Lindsay with her family to another farm.
At 17, after her parents died, she lived with siblings in Rock Island, Illinois and in Lindsay, Nebraska. She moved to Omaha during WWII and worked at Omaha Steel making 75 mm artillery shell casings for the war effort. She moved to Denver, Colorado with a friend briefly, working at Lowry Airforce Base. When the war ended, she came back to Omaha where she met her husband, Gerald (Jerry) Hill, whom she married in September 1948. They were blessed with 4 children, William Hill (Margaret). Jack Hill (Denise), Nancy Hill (Marilou) and Mary Kay Rohrberg. They all survive.
Alvera and Jerry owned and operated several restaurants in Council Bluffs including Hill's Cafe on Broadway back in the 1950s and '60s, and most recently Hill's Bar and Grill on Main Street in the 1970s and '80s. She was proud to have worked for NBC in 1960, calling in vote results for the presidency in Pottawattamie County and has carried that I.D. card in her purse ever since.
Alvera loved gardening and riding her lawn mower around their acre of land. When her husband died in 1984, Alvera continued to live in their house on Bennett Avenue in Council Bluffs and take care of the yard, always planting small gardens of Crocus, Daffodil, Hyacinths, Primrose, Forsythia and Tulips as well as tending to a long row of beautiful Peonies. When she got into her 80s, her children encouraged her to move to Prime Square Senior Independent Living apartments where she remained until her death. She made a lot of friends and enjoyed playing BINGO each week as well as Poker and Tripoli; but her favorite game was Rummy, which she played with her great granddaughters and other family and friends, always winning a much higher percentage of time than not. One of her greatest assets was her sense of humor and she always came with a new joke or two to share with her friends and family.
In addition to her parents and her husband, Alvera was preceded in death by her siblings, Irene, Walter, Marie, Margie, Louis, Edmund, and Alfred. In addition to her four children, Alvera is survived by her seven grandchildren Rachelle, Lori, Corinne, Brian, Nick, Jeff and Alicia, eight great grandchildren Kaylinn, Rachel, Abbie, Halden, Jayden, Jared, Cooper and Jocie and one great great grandson, Lewis, as well as many loving nieces and nephews. Alvera was a loving, silly and fun person to her family and many friends. She was bright, clever and creative all the way up till her death. Most important of all things to her was her strong Catholic faith and her devotion to the Holy Rosary and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was a member of St. Peter's Church in Council Bluffs for all of her adult life.
Recitation of the Rosary Wednesday 6:00 p.m., with visitation to follow until 8:00 p.m., at Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial Thursday 10:30 a.m., at St. Peter Catholic Church. Interment St. Joseph Cemetery with luncheon to follow at Kottas Hall.
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She was born on June 26, 1925 in Nazareth, Texas to John and Anna Schaecher Albracht. The family moved back to their home state of Nebraska with their eight children including their six-month-old, Alvera. Alvera attended Saint Bernard School and lived in rural Saint Bernard on a farm. She always said they walked five miles to school and back and her children thought she was making that up until, years later, they were out there and measured the distance in their car. It was exactly five miles. She felt vindicated after all those years. She later moved to Lindsay with her family to another farm.
At 17, after her parents died, she lived with siblings in Rock Island, Illinois and in Lindsay, Nebraska. She moved to Omaha during WWII and worked at Omaha Steel making 75 mm artillery shell casings for the war effort. She moved to Denver, Colorado with a friend briefly, working at Lowry Airforce Base. When the war ended, she came back to Omaha where she met her husband, Gerald (Jerry) Hill, whom she married in September 1948. They were blessed with 4 children, William Hill (Margaret). Jack Hill (Denise), Nancy Hill (Marilou) and Mary Kay Rohrberg. They all survive.
Alvera and Jerry owned and operated several restaurants in Council Bluffs including Hill's Cafe on Broadway back in the 1950s and '60s, and most recently Hill's Bar and Grill on Main Street in the 1970s and '80s. She was proud to have worked for NBC in 1960, calling in vote results for the presidency in Pottawattamie County and has carried that I.D. card in her purse ever since.
Alvera loved gardening and riding her lawn mower around their acre of land. When her husband died in 1984, Alvera continued to live in their house on Bennett Avenue in Council Bluffs and take care of the yard, always planting small gardens of Crocus, Daffodil, Hyacinths, Primrose, Forsythia and Tulips as well as tending to a long row of beautiful Peonies. When she got into her 80s, her children encouraged her to move to Prime Square Senior Independent Living apartments where she remained until her death. She made a lot of friends and enjoyed playing BINGO each week as well as Poker and Tripoli; but her favorite game was Rummy, which she played with her great granddaughters and other family and friends, always winning a much higher percentage of time than not. One of her greatest assets was her sense of humor and she always came with a new joke or two to share with her friends and family.
In addition to her parents and her husband, Alvera was preceded in death by her siblings, Irene, Walter, Marie, Margie, Louis, Edmund, and Alfred. In addition to her four children, Alvera is survived by her seven grandchildren Rachelle, Lori, Corinne, Brian, Nick, Jeff and Alicia, eight great grandchildren Kaylinn, Rachel, Abbie, Halden, Jayden, Jared, Cooper and Jocie and one great great grandson, Lewis, as well as many loving nieces and nephews. Alvera was a loving, silly and fun person to her family and many friends. She was bright, clever and creative all the way up till her death. Most important of all things to her was her strong Catholic faith and her devotion to the Holy Rosary and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was a member of St. Peter's Church in Council Bluffs for all of her adult life.
Recitation of the Rosary Wednesday 6:00 p.m., with visitation to follow until 8:00 p.m., at Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial Thursday 10:30 a.m., at St. Peter Catholic Church. Interment St. Joseph Cemetery with luncheon to follow at Kottas Hall.
Original Headstone Photo by:
dmarr
#47872875
Alvera Mary Albracht Hill, age 96, died on May 5, 2022 at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa surrounded by her loving family.
She was born on June 26, 1925 in Nazareth, Texas to John and Anna Schaecher Albracht. The family moved back to their home state of Nebraska with their eight children including their six-month-old, Alvera. Alvera attended Saint Bernard School and lived in rural Saint Bernard on a farm. She always said they walked five miles to school and back and her children thought she was making that up until, years later, they were out there and measured the distance in their car. It was exactly five miles. She felt vindicated after all those years. She later moved to Lindsay with her family to another farm.
At 17, after her parents died, she lived with siblings in Rock Island, Illinois and in Lindsay, Nebraska. She moved to Omaha during WWII and worked at Omaha Steel making 75 mm artillery shell casings for the war effort. She moved to Denver, Colorado with a friend briefly, working at Lowry Airforce Base. When the war ended, she came back to Omaha where she met her husband, Gerald (Jerry) Hill, whom she married in September 1948. They were blessed with 4 children, William Hill (Margaret). Jack Hill (Denise), Nancy Hill (Marilou) and Mary Kay Rohrberg. They all survive.
Alvera and Jerry owned and operated several restaurants in Council Bluffs including Hill's Cafe on Broadway back in the 1950s and '60s, and most recently Hill's Bar and Grill on Main Street in the 1970s and '80s. She was proud to have worked for NBC in 1960, calling in vote results for the presidency in Pottawattamie County and has carried that I.D. card in her purse ever since.
Alvera loved gardening and riding her lawn mower around their acre of land. When her husband died in 1984, Alvera continued to live in their house on Bennett Avenue in Council Bluffs and take care of the yard, always planting small gardens of Crocus, Daffodil, Hyacinths, Primrose, Forsythia and Tulips as well as tending to a long row of beautiful Peonies. When she got into her 80s, her children encouraged her to move to Prime Square Senior Independent Living apartments where she remained until her death. She made a lot of friends and enjoyed playing BINGO each week as well as Poker and Tripoli; but her favorite game was Rummy, which she played with her great granddaughters and other family and friends, always winning a much higher percentage of time than not. One of her greatest assets was her sense of humor and she always came with a new joke or two to share with her friends and family.
In addition to her parents and her husband, Alvera was preceded in death by her siblings, Irene, Walter, Marie, Margie, Louis, Edmund, and Alfred. In addition to her four children, Alvera is survived by her seven grandchildren Rachelle, Lori, Corinne, Brian, Nick, Jeff and Alicia, eight great grandchildren Kaylinn, Rachel, Abbie, Halden, Jayden, Jared, Cooper and Jocie and one great great grandson, Lewis, as well as many loving nieces and nephews. Alvera was a loving, silly and fun person to her family and many friends. She was bright, clever and creative all the way up till her death. Most important of all things to her was her strong Catholic faith and her devotion to the Holy Rosary and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was a member of St. Peter's Church in Council Bluffs for all of her adult life.
Recitation of the Rosary Wednesday 6:00 p.m., with visitation to follow until 8:00 p.m., at Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial Thursday 10:30 a.m., at St. Peter Catholic Church. Interment St. Joseph Cemetery with luncheon to follow at Kottas Hall.
Original Headstone Photo by:
dmarr
#47872875
She was born on June 26, 1925 in Nazareth, Texas to John and Anna Schaecher Albracht. The family moved back to their home state of Nebraska with their eight children including their six-month-old, Alvera. Alvera attended Saint Bernard School and lived in rural Saint Bernard on a farm. She always said they walked five miles to school and back and her children thought she was making that up until, years later, they were out there and measured the distance in their car. It was exactly five miles. She felt vindicated after all those years. She later moved to Lindsay with her family to another farm.
At 17, after her parents died, she lived with siblings in Rock Island, Illinois and in Lindsay, Nebraska. She moved to Omaha during WWII and worked at Omaha Steel making 75 mm artillery shell casings for the war effort. She moved to Denver, Colorado with a friend briefly, working at Lowry Airforce Base. When the war ended, she came back to Omaha where she met her husband, Gerald (Jerry) Hill, whom she married in September 1948. They were blessed with 4 children, William Hill (Margaret). Jack Hill (Denise), Nancy Hill (Marilou) and Mary Kay Rohrberg. They all survive.
Alvera and Jerry owned and operated several restaurants in Council Bluffs including Hill's Cafe on Broadway back in the 1950s and '60s, and most recently Hill's Bar and Grill on Main Street in the 1970s and '80s. She was proud to have worked for NBC in 1960, calling in vote results for the presidency in Pottawattamie County and has carried that I.D. card in her purse ever since.
Alvera loved gardening and riding her lawn mower around their acre of land. When her husband died in 1984, Alvera continued to live in their house on Bennett Avenue in Council Bluffs and take care of the yard, always planting small gardens of Crocus, Daffodil, Hyacinths, Primrose, Forsythia and Tulips as well as tending to a long row of beautiful Peonies. When she got into her 80s, her children encouraged her to move to Prime Square Senior Independent Living apartments where she remained until her death. She made a lot of friends and enjoyed playing BINGO each week as well as Poker and Tripoli; but her favorite game was Rummy, which she played with her great granddaughters and other family and friends, always winning a much higher percentage of time than not. One of her greatest assets was her sense of humor and she always came with a new joke or two to share with her friends and family.
In addition to her parents and her husband, Alvera was preceded in death by her siblings, Irene, Walter, Marie, Margie, Louis, Edmund, and Alfred. In addition to her four children, Alvera is survived by her seven grandchildren Rachelle, Lori, Corinne, Brian, Nick, Jeff and Alicia, eight great grandchildren Kaylinn, Rachel, Abbie, Halden, Jayden, Jared, Cooper and Jocie and one great great grandson, Lewis, as well as many loving nieces and nephews. Alvera was a loving, silly and fun person to her family and many friends. She was bright, clever and creative all the way up till her death. Most important of all things to her was her strong Catholic faith and her devotion to the Holy Rosary and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was a member of St. Peter's Church in Council Bluffs for all of her adult life.
Recitation of the Rosary Wednesday 6:00 p.m., with visitation to follow until 8:00 p.m., at Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial Thursday 10:30 a.m., at St. Peter Catholic Church. Interment St. Joseph Cemetery with luncheon to follow at Kottas Hall.
Original Headstone Photo by:
dmarr
#47872875
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