A Mass of Christian Burial was held Friday, May 2, 2014 at St. Teresa Catholic Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, for Mariana Hill, who died on April 27, 2014, after a brief hospitalization in Lincoln. Monsignor Joseph Namec Officated. Interment was at Calvary Cemetery in Lincoln.
Mariana Mahlaney Hill was born December 6, 1922, in Waseca, MN to the late Jerome and Mary (Adams) Byrne. She graduated from New Richland, MN High School in 1940 and the College of St. Teresa in Winona, MN in 1945. She taught high school in New Benton, MN and New Richland, MN. On November 28, 1946, she married Robert Mathew Hill in Winona, Minnesota. She and Bob lived in St. Paul, MN while Bob worked on his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota and Mariana worked at Telex. In 1955 she and her family moved to Lincoln, NE.Mariana was an active member of St. Teresa Parish in Lincoln where she worked in the Parish Thrift Shop, was a weekly scheduled participant at the Parish Perpetual Adoration Program, and volunteered at the Parish school.
Survivors include four children: Jerome (Mary Gernes) of Lake City, MN; Joseph (Jan Bruns) of Oakland, CA; Mathew of Brunswick, GA., and Owen of Lincoln, NE. two grandchildren: David of Lake City, MN and Anne (Keenan) Bachmeyer of Evans Mills, NY; one great grandchild: Livia of Rochester, MN; and sister Joan Byrne of Pompano Beach, FL.
Mariana was preceded in death by her parents and husband Bob (2011).