SALT LAKE CITY - Thomas McCormick Hill, died July 19, 2010 after a three-year battle with cancer.
Hill was born in Eureka, Utah, the fifth of 12 children, to Helen McCormick and John Hill. A few years after graduating from Judge Memorial Catholic High School, he married Carol Ann Barber on Sept. 17, 1942.
He served with the Army Air Corps in the European Theater as a radio operator in B-17s. He flew 31 missions with the 100th Bomb Group stationed in Thorpe-Abbots, England. He then worked for various companies in the mining industry, eventually assuming the position of manager of Federal American Partners, a uranium mining and milling project in Wyoming. While there, he served on the state Land Use Commission and in 1972 was named the Wyoming Mining Industry Man of the Year. He retired from his position as an executive with United Nuclear in Albuquerque, N.M. and he and Mimi returned to live in Salt Lake City.
Hill served in many volunteer roles at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Salt Lake City.
A Funeral Mass was celebrated at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.
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