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Death Mr. James Edward Hill, retired lab technician in SEAS, died November 3 after a short illness at the age of 82. Mr. James served in both World War II and the Korean War achieving the rank of sergeant and receiving the Medal of Good Conduct, the World War II Victory Medal and the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal. Mr. Hill began working at Penn in 1956 in the maintenance department of SEAS. He became a stockkeeper in 1957 and returned to maintenance in 1958. In 1964 he became a mechanician, was promoted to chief mechanician in 1969; he became a mechanic II in 1971 and retired in July 1983. He returned as a temporary worker in September of that year and continued working in SEAS until 1999. He is survived by his wife, Jean; daughter, Lynette Jenkins; two sons, James and Leonard; four grandchildren, Antonio Hill Armstrong, Samuel Hill Jenkins, Veda Hill Chamberlain and Christina Hill; and four great-grandchildren.
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