Carroll Hill Obituary

CARROLL ANN HILL
July 22, 1948 ˜ August 9, 2021

On Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, Carroll Ann Hill, loving wife and mother of five, passed away surrounded by family at home at the age of 73. Carroll was born July 22, 1948 in Glendive, MT, to Johnathon Hill and Helen (Anderson) Hill. Carroll was married to Daniel Handran in 1967, and she was a home maker and mother for the next 30 years. They raised four sons, Shawn, Patrick, Ryan, and Tyler; and one daughter, Kerry. After they divorced in 1996, Carroll went back to school and finished her Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology at Oregon State University in 1998, where she met her second husband, Robert Cromwell, whom she married in 2001. She was able to work in her second career as both an archaeological technician and a museum technician on projects in New York, Oregon, and Washington.
Carroll had a passion for animals great and small. She joked that she could ride a horse before she could walk, and was a barrel racer in high school, competing in rodeos in eastern Montana. Throughout her life, she often had a menagerie of pets, ranging from love birds, to rats, cats, dogs, and her pet snake Rosie, a red-tailed Columbian boa constrictor. She also had a ”green thumb” growing plants from seed and she was particularly known for her prowess in growing African Violets. She was also an accomplished seamstress and sewed everything from wedding gowns to personalized archaeological survey vests under the moniker of Blue Horsewoman Designs.
Carroll was preceded in death by her parents, her sisters, Veronica and Sarah; brother, Leo; and her first husband, Daniel. She is survived by her husband, Robert Cromwell; sons, Shawn, Patrick, Ryan, and Tyler; daughter, Kerry; brothers, Mike and Dean; sisters, Patti and Annie; eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. A private remembrance with her family members will be held in Glendive, MT, soon. In lieu of flowers, donations in her remembrance can be made to the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (http://www.hdsa.org).
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