Annemarie Hill
ANNEMARIE HILL WAS BORN IN Preußen (PRUSSIA), GERMANY, ON SEPTEMBER 21, 1940, TO KARL AND ANNA KIRSTEIN MATTHE. ANNEMARIE DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN ZANESVILLE, OHIO, USA, ON JANUARY 22, 2025, AT THE AGE OF 84.
ANNEMARIE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS; HER FIRST HUSBAND, WENNER EWERT; HER TWIN SISTER, “LILO” LIESELOTTE KIRSCHNICK; HER SISTER, URSULA KIRSCHNICK; HER BROTHER, HORST MATTHE; HER BROTHER, HEINZ MATTHE; A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, PATTY EWERT; AND A GRANDDAUGHTER, AMANDA EWERT.
ONE DAY, ANNEMARIE HEARD LOVE’S CALL CONVEYED BY A VOICE SINGING KARAOKE OF THE “PRETTY WOMAN” HE HAD CHANCED TO MEET. SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH THE SINGER, ELTON LYLE HILL JR, A U.S. SOLDIER, STATIONED IN DALAL, GERMANY. THAT MOMENT MARKED THE BIRTH OF A DEEP, LASTING LOVE THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF BOTH THEIR LIVES WITH ITS STEDFASTNESS, WARMTH AND PASSION. IN LATER YEARS, AS THE LOVERS APPROACHED THEIR FINAL CHAPTER TOGETHER, THE FIRE OF THAT PASSION BECAME GLOWING, SUSTAINING EMBERS THAT UNITED THEIR CONTEMPLATION OF A LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE. ANNEMARIE SOUGHT FOOD FOR HER AGING SPIRIT IN LISTENING TO GOSPEL HYMNS AS SHE STROKED ELTON’S BEARD, AND SHE WOULD OFTEN SPEAK OF HER DESIRE TO “GO HOME” – NOT TO HER BEGINNING HOME IN GERMANY, BUT TO HER ETERNAL HOME – A CHOICE THAT SHE KNEW AWAITS EACH ONE OF US.
ANNEMARIE’S LIFE WAS DISTINGUISHED BY SERVICE TO, AND CARING FOR, OTHERS: FOR THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, ELTON LYLE HILL JR AND HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, ALL OF WHOM WERE HER SPECIAL TREASURES; FOR HER MANY PATIENTS CARED FOR AS A PRIVATE-DUTY NURSE AND AS A MEMBER OF THE NURSING STAFF OF THE MUSKINGUM COUNTY HOME FOR SEVERAL YEARS; AND FOR THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS SHE TENDED WITH HER CAPABLE “GREEN THUMB”.
ANNEMARIE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A STOIC. SHE WAS STERN AND TOUGH ON THE OUTSIDE, YET WARM AND LOVING ON THE INSIDE. SHE RULED HER HOUSEHOLD WITH AN IRON HAND, SOFTENED BY A MOTHER’S LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING. HER CHILDREN AND ANYONE WHO WERE SO UNWISE AS TO MISBEHAVE – WHETHER ADULT OR CHILD – KNEW THEY WERE IN TROUBLE WHEN THAT FINGER WENT UP, HER EYE FIXED ITSELF ON THE OFFENDER, AND HER EYEBROW RAISED! (SMILE) SHE WAS A WISE KEEPER AT HOME AND GUARDED TO THE END, THE RECIPE TO HER DELICIOUS GERMAN POTATO SALAD.
LEFT TO MOURN ANNEMARIE ARE HER 8 CHILDREN: OF GERMANY, MEDINA (NORBERT) GOLTE AND NORBERT (GABI) EWERT; OF ZANESVILLE, OHIO: WOLFGANG EWERT, PETER EWERT, MIKE (ANGIE) EWERT, AND ALEX EWERT; OF CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE: ESTHER (DAREN) GRIMES; OF INDIANA: PERE (MONICA)EWERT; SOME 50 GRANDCHILDREN & GREAT- GRANDCHILDREN AND A MULTITUDE OF FRIENDS SPREAD ACROSS 2 CONTINENTS, WHOSE LIVES ANNEMARIE PROFOUNDLY AND INDELIBLY TOUCHED.
AS WE SAY OUR FINAL GOODBYE, WE KNOW THAT THE MEMORIES OF OUR LIFE WITH ANNEMARIE HILL WILL WARM ALL OUR TOMORROWS!
YOU MAY CALL ON THE FAMILY ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2025, FROM 2 P.M. UNTIL 4 P.M. AS WELL AS FRIDAY JANUARY 31, 2025, FROM 11 A.M. UNTIL 12 P.M. WITH FUNERAL SERVICES STARTING AT 12 P.M. ALL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT: CHURCH OF GOD, 718 BAKER ST, ZANESVILLE OHIO. BURIAL WILL FOLLOW IN WOODLAWN CEMETERY. BURRELL FUNERAL SERVICES IS SERVING THE FAMILY.
