16. HILL – Glenda Joyce – May 22, 1946 – November 9, 1951

 

HUNTSVILLE TIMES

Sunday, November 11, 1951

 

Glenda Joyce Hill Dies From Polio

Huntsville Park Child Loses Long Fight,

Was Placed In Lung Oct. 1

 

Glenda Joyce HILL, 5, of Huntsville Park, died of polio Friday at 10 a.m. at Jefferson-Hillman Hospital and will be buried today, following services at 2 p.m. at the Cave Springs Baptist Church on the New Hope-Gurley road.

 

The child was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman HILL, recently of 625 Emm Ell Street, who moved temporarily to the home of his parents near Owens Cross Roads, to permit the mother to stay with the little girl in Birmingham.

 

Glenda Joyce became ill Sept. 27, being the 16^th child in the county to be stricken with polio.  She is the only one for whom the disease proved fatal.  She was taken to the Huntsville Hospital Sept. 30 and to Birmingham in the city fire department’s respirator on Oct. 1.

 

She had the bulbar type of polio, but had shown some improvement the last two weeks, and was able to be out of the lung 10 minutes per day until Tuesday.

 

Physicians in Birmingham informed the parents that the child’s case had some unusual aspects and on her death requested permission for an autopsy in an effort to learn more about the disease.  The parents consented, expressing the hope that in so doing they might help some other child.

 

Surviving besides the parents are: one brother, Donald HILL, age 4; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon C. McDONALD, Route 2, Gurley, and Mr. and Mrs. Ben HILL, Owens Cross Roads route, great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. McDONALD, Owens Cross Roads; one great-great uncle, John THOMPSON, Howell Hill, Tenn., and several aunts and uncles.

 

The Rev. Roy STONE will officiate at services and Butler Brothers Funeral Home of New Hope will be in charge of interment in Moon Cemetery at Owens Cross Roads.

 

Uncles serving as pallbearers will be Oran HILL, G. W. McDONALD, Thomas ROGERS and Jack KEEL.