Obituary for Pamela Susan Hill (Hill)
Pamela Hill
Pam was born on March 1, 1969 in Sault Ste-Marie, Ontario to parents Lorne and Rachel Hill. She was the youngest of three children and was particularly close to her older sister Theresa. Pam grew up in Brandon, Manitoba, attending Sacred Heart school and graduating from Neelin High School. During her Grade 12 year, her family hosted a Spanish exchange student, Iratxe Minaur. Pam and Iratxe became good friends and after high school, Pam lived for a year in Spain with Iratxe’s family. Pam and her sister also travelled extensively in Europe. After returning to Canada, Pam obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandon University. While at B.U., she met Dallas Ewen and they started dating. After university, Pam taught English in China for (almost) a year, and on her return she and Dallas lived together in Toronto where he attended law school and she worked. On his graduation they returned to Manitoba, living in Minnedosa and Birtle where Dallas practised law and Pam worked at the Elkhorn Resort and Birtle Clinic. In 1999 they moved to Winnipeg and Pam began work at the Pollock & Company law firm as a legal assistant. Pam and Dallas were married in 2002. While she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003 and with stage IV metastatic cancer in 2009, Pam bore her illness without complaint and always made the best of things.
Pam loved to travel and toured Europe several times, first with her sister and then four times with Dallas, where they rented cars and drove through the UK, Spain (including visiting Iratxe and her family), France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. She loved visiting new places, admiring the scenery and architecture and seeing how local people lived. One of her favourite things was “rambling” in the UK – walking through the countryside past fields and pastures along footpaths that have been used for centuries. Pam also loved driving trips in Canada and the USA, including trips to the West Coast and the Black Hills in South Dakota. While she was happy when travelling to go to museums and the like, she and Dallas had a comfortable arrangement: when she got tired, she would go read a book and have a coffee while he kept on in the museum. The arrangement served them well in their European trips and many others within North America, to places like New York City and Washington, DC. Pam and Dallas were fortunate to visit the UK just last year, and one thing she planned in advance and enjoyed thoroughly was “the Alpaca Experience” – visiting a working farm, hanging out with four fuzzy alpacas, and taking them for a walk!
At home, she was also a keen gardener. Pam’s Hallowe’en costume sewing skills were legendary and she also loved knitting hats, scarves and especially stuffed toys, which were treasured by nieces, nephews, and children of friends who received them as gifts. She was an acknowledged expert on 1980s television and loved to entertain at home. Pam was an organizer and loved to plan meals, trips and activities – even helping others make plans for themselves. Above all else Pam was selfless, generous, determined, and strong, and she was devoted to her family, her friends and her cats. She was a beloved wife, daughter, sister and aunt, and she will be so dearly missed by her husband Dallas, her parents Lorne and Rachel, her sister Theresa and brother Chuck, her nieces and nephews, and all of the other family members and friends whose lives she touched in her too-brief time with us.
The family also wishes to thank the doctors and staff at CancerCare Manitoba for their help and support over the years, to the nurses in the Palliative Care/PleurX homecare program that visited Pam at home, and to the staff, nurses and doctors at the Riverview Health Centre palliative care unit, where she passed away peacefully on August 7, 2020. Their kind and gentle care was of much comfort to Pam.
Cremation has taken place and in lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Pam, may be made to CancerCare Manitoba Foundation.
Pam was born on March 1, 1969 in Sault Ste-Marie, Ontario to parents Lorne and Rachel Hill. She was the youngest of three children and was particularly close to her older sister Theresa. Pam grew up in Brandon, Manitoba, attending Sacred Heart school and graduating from Neelin High School. During her Grade 12 year, her family hosted a Spanish exchange student, Iratxe Minaur. Pam and Iratxe became good friends and after high school, Pam lived for a year in Spain with Iratxe’s family. Pam and her sister also travelled extensively in Europe. After returning to Canada, Pam obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandon University. While at B.U., she met Dallas Ewen and they started dating. After university, Pam taught English in China for (almost) a year, and on her return she and Dallas lived together in Toronto where he attended law school and she worked. On his graduation they returned to Manitoba, living in Minnedosa and Birtle where Dallas practised law and Pam worked at the Elkhorn Resort and Birtle Clinic. In 1999 they moved to Winnipeg and Pam began work at the Pollock & Company law firm as a legal assistant. Pam and Dallas were married in 2002. While she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003 and with stage IV metastatic cancer in 2009, Pam bore her illness without complaint and always made the best of things.
Pam loved to travel and toured Europe several times, first with her sister and then four times with Dallas, where they rented cars and drove through the UK, Spain (including visiting Iratxe and her family), France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. She loved visiting new places, admiring the scenery and architecture and seeing how local people lived. One of her favourite things was “rambling” in the UK – walking through the countryside past fields and pastures along footpaths that have been used for centuries. Pam also loved driving trips in Canada and the USA, including trips to the West Coast and the Black Hills in South Dakota. While she was happy when travelling to go to museums and the like, she and Dallas had a comfortable arrangement: when she got tired, she would go read a book and have a coffee while he kept on in the museum. The arrangement served them well in their European trips and many others within North America, to places like New York City and Washington, DC. Pam and Dallas were fortunate to visit the UK just last year, and one thing she planned in advance and enjoyed thoroughly was “the Alpaca Experience” – visiting a working farm, hanging out with four fuzzy alpacas, and taking them for a walk!
At home, she was also a keen gardener. Pam’s Hallowe’en costume sewing skills were legendary and she also loved knitting hats, scarves and especially stuffed toys, which were treasured by nieces, nephews, and children of friends who received them as gifts. She was an acknowledged expert on 1980s television and loved to entertain at home. Pam was an organizer and loved to plan meals, trips and activities – even helping others make plans for themselves. Above all else Pam was selfless, generous, determined, and strong, and she was devoted to her family, her friends and her cats. She was a beloved wife, daughter, sister and aunt, and she will be so dearly missed by her husband Dallas, her parents Lorne and Rachel, her sister Theresa and brother Chuck, her nieces and nephews, and all of the other family members and friends whose lives she touched in her too-brief time with us.
The family also wishes to thank the doctors and staff at CancerCare Manitoba for their help and support over the years, to the nurses in the Palliative Care/PleurX homecare program that visited Pam at home, and to the staff, nurses and doctors at the Riverview Health Centre palliative care unit, where she passed away peacefully on August 7, 2020. Their kind and gentle care was of much comfort to Pam.
Cremation has taken place and in lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Pam, may be made to CancerCare Manitoba Foundation.