Dr. Chalmers A. Hill, 60, 114 South Sixth Street, physician and surgeon here for thirty years died at his home after an illness of six weeks. Death was due to pneumonia and heart attack. With a stroke six weeks ago which left his right side paralyzed, Dr. Hill's condition failed to improve. A weak heart condition developed a week ago and pneumonia set in shortly before his death.

Dr. Hill was born Sept. 2, 1879, at Parnassus, Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, of Scotch Irish parents, Alexander McLeod and Eliza (Dodds) Hill. He was the youngest of nine children.

In the late summer of 1883 his family moved from Pennsylvania to the mountains of Colorado where Dr. Hill spent the remainder of his childhood upon a ranch. After he was graduated from the public schools of LaJunta, Colorado, Dr. Hill spent four years at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was graduated in 1904. He completed his professional training at Northwestern University, Chicago. His internship was served at the St. Francis Hospital, LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Later he became associated in practice with Dr. John R. Espey, chief surgeon for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company at Trinidad, Colorado, where Dr.Hill remained for two years.

In 1909 Dr. Hill came to Council Bluffs and began the practice of medicine and surgery which was to continue for three decades. He married Dr. Christine Ericksen, a local practicing physician in 1912. A lifelong Scotch Presbyterian, Dr. Hill joined the First Presbyterian Church upon his arrival in Council Bluffs and had been a ruling elder for several years.

Dr. Hill was a member of the Pottawattamie County, the Iowa State and American Medical Associations, the Missouri Valley Medical Society, the Iowa Clinical and Surgical Association and the Interstate Post Graduate Medical Association of North America. He was also a member of the Inter-Professional Club and was affiliated with several fraternal organizations.

During the war, after some months of preliminary training, he went with Mobile Hospital No. 1 (Unit K) to France. Soon after his arrival in France he was forced to undergo an emergency appendectomy. After recovery he served under British command, in a hospital at Tours, an important "clearing" hospital back of the lines. He remained there for some months after the armistice, returning to the U.S. in 1919.

Surviving are his widow, Dr. Christine Ericksen-Hill, a member of the school board for several years; two daughters, Mrs. Richard Beardsley and Miss Kathryn Dodds Hill both of Council Bluffs; three sisters, Mrs. Alexander Gordon Murray and Mrs. Helen Hill Boyd both of Santa Monica, California and Mrs. David Reid, Portland, Oregon.

Funeral services will be at the First Presbyterian Church with Dr. C. Carson Bransby officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery. Tyler-Winslow Mortuary is in charge of the body.