Submitted by: Dan Rich

Carol Elizabeth Hillier

Dec. 24, 1894 – Dec. 6, 1974

South Bend Tribune, Saturday, December 7, 1974

Mrs. Carol Eberhart Hillier, a prominent resident, died unexpectedly of natural causes at 10 a.m. Friday in her apartment at 735 Lincoln Way E.

Mrs. Hillier, a descendant of the Eberhart family, residents of Mishawaka for seven generations, was born in Mishawaka and resided here her lifetime.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Bubb Funeral Chapel, where friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Manley F. Miller, reader of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of which Mrs. Hillier was a member, will officiate, and burial will be in the Mishawaka City Cemetery.

As Carol E. Eberhart, she married Samuel D. Hillier in Mishawaka on June 14, 1921. He died Nov. 17, 1950.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. James G. Perkins of Saline, Mich.; six grandchildren; a great-grandchild and a sister, Mrs. George W. Blair of Mishawaka.

Mrs. Hillier was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Literary Club, Antiquarian Society, Northern Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Historical Society, Mishawaka Garden Club, Art Council Board and PEO.

Mrs. Hillier was the founder in 1946 of the Mishawaka Children's Museum and served as president of the museum's board for 25 years.