Lifelong Turner Station resident and civic leader Margaret L. Hill died Oct 18. She was 76 and was known to family and friends as “Bootsie.”
{reg}The daughter of the late Isaac and Grace Quarles, she grew up in Turner Station and graduated from Sollers Point High School in 1953. She was a member of New Shiloh Baptist Church, where she was baptized.
She married James Hill in 1955. The couple raised five children.
After 31 years of service in the federal government, she retired from Defense Investigative Services at Fort Holabird in 1995.
Away from work, she enjoyed crossword puzzles, bowling and outings on her boat, “The Miss Bootsie III.” She belonged to the First Mates of the Pleasant Yacht Club. Her community activism included membership in the former Feminine Distinction Social Club and the Turner Station Recreation Council, where she last served as vice president. She was also chairperson for the council’s Little League Opening Day Parade for 15 years and was business manager and coordinator for the council’s women’s softball team. For her dedication to the community, she received numerous awards from the Turner Station Development Corporation.
“She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend who truly enjoyed life,” a loved one declared. “She will be truly missed by all who knew and loved her.”
Children Pamela Hall, Michael Hill, Felicia Stanley and Connita Hill, stepdaughter Lisa Hill, sisters Jacqueline Jones and Rhonda Quarles, brother John Quarles, nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren survive her.
Along with her husband, she was preceded in death by daughter Tyra J. Hill and sister Jennie King.
Services were held at New Shiloh Baptist Church, with interment at Crownsville Veterans Cemetery.{/reg}
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