Barbara Hill Troeleman

                                                                        In Memory and Tribute

                                                                                          to

                                                                BARBARA HILL TROELEMAN, RN

Born October 26th, 1931, in Greene County, North Carolina to Fredrick W. Hill Sr. and Sudie Sumrell Hill, Barbara Jean Hill was the third child in what would become a family of five. They lived a rural life of farming and all those things associated with life in the small, close-knit community of Arba, North Carolina, just south of Snow Hill, in Greene County. She graduated from Maury High School, Maury, NC in 1949 and moved to Raleigh, NC, being accepted into the Rex Hospital School of Nursing, graduating as a Registered Nurse in 1952. While in Raleigh, she met Adriaan J. Troeleman a native of Rotterdam Holland and an engineering student at North Carolina State University. In 1952 they were married in Ashville, NC, where his career as a Textile Engineer took them to begin their life together. Through the years they also lived in Narrows, VA; Etowah, TN; Raleigh, NC; and Moultrie, GA and Beaufort, NC where they retired. In Beaufort, NC, they spent many years enjoying family, friends and coastal living.

Barbara was a wife and mother as well as a Registered Nurse, she worked in many areas of Nursing including the Operating Room, ICU and as well, managed a family practice clinic in Narrows Va. In the late1960’s she returned to school and graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education. She was a Nursing Instructor for 10 years in Va, TN, and NC. She was Clinical Director of Nursing at Colquitt Memorial Hospital in Moultrie, GA, when she retired in 1994. 

Barbara and Adriaan were always active in their church and community wherever they lived and continued to volunteer after retirement in Beaufort, NC, where they lived for 22 years and made a new life in retirement. In 2016 they relocated to Sun City Center, FL to be closer to family.

Her parents Fred and Sudie Hill, Brother Fred Hill Jr., sisters Doris Stulce and Helen Smith preceded her in death. She is survived by her brother Francis Arthur Hill, of Wilson, NC, daughter Gwen (Bruce)Sherman, and sons John (Gretchen) Troeleman and Nicholas (Dana)Troeleman, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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