Submitted by: Diana Brown

 

The South Bend Tribune, Apr. 9, 1980
Jack L. Hill, of 4625 Parkway, was found dead around 10 a.m. Tuesday at home with a gunshot wound in the head. St. Joseph County Coroner Dr. Stanley Koscielski ruled the death a suicide.
He was employed by the Sibley Machine and Foundry Co.
He was born on April 19, 1922, in South Bend, and had lived here all his life.
He wife, the former Irene Simon, survives, along with his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Hill of Carmel, Ind.; a sister, Mrs. Eugene Flanagan of Carmel and a brother, Alfred, of Rochester, Mich.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Zahoran Funeral Home. Dr. R. Powell Mead, pastor of the First Christian Church, will officiate. Entombment will be in Riverview Mausoleum. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home.
He was a World War II army and navy veteran.