Evelyn Hileman

1908-1980 · Washington

Born 1908, Washington, District of Columbia

Died 1980

Mother: Beatrice Koontz

Evelyn M. Hileman was born in Washington, District of Columbia, on 30 October 1908. She was the daughter of Albert A. Hileman and his wife Beatrice, and she had a brother, Frank D. Hileman, and a sister, Zoe, who married a Getz. On 18 August 1927, at 18, she married Henry Hirrlinger, a young Washington electrician, at Niagara Falls, New York.

Their first child, Lorraine Evelyn, was born about 1929, and their son Jack was born in June 1933. The family lived at 2216 Quincy Street northeast, the frame house Henry had built in 1929. In 1940 Evelyn was 31, and in 1950, at 41, she was keeping house there.

Lorraine went to the University of Maryland and joined the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. By 1953 she had chaired the sorority's alumnae council for the Washington area. In December 1955 Henry and Evelyn announced her engagement to John F. Briggs of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

By then Henry and Evelyn had moved to Olney Acres, a new development in Montgomery County, Maryland. Evelyn took to it quickly. In March 1956 the neighbors organized a club to promote friendship and work for the good of the community and its children, and Evelyn was its first president. Its first project was making tray favors for the residents of the Sharon nursing home at Sandy Spring. In 1958 the club held a hobby night every month at her house.

She served on the planning committees of the county's homemakers' clubs and women's groups. In 1963 she chaired the ticket sales for a benefit performance of "The King and I" at the Shady Grove Music Fair, raised for the building fund of Montgomery General Hospital at Olney. The notices gave her telephone, WA 4-9575, for anyone who wanted seats.

Her mother, Beatrice Hileman, of Sandy Spring, near Olney, died on 15 June 1978. Evelyn died two years later almost to the day, on 18 June 1980, still living at Olney Acres. Her notice in the Evening Star the next day named her son Jack, her daughter Lorraine H. Briggs, her brother Frank D. Hileman and Joe Getz. She is buried beside Henry at Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Brentwood, Prince George's County, Maryland.

Parents

Beatrice Koontz (d. 1978)

Sources

United States Census 1950, District of Columbia, Washington, enumeration district 1-1028, sheet 21, lines 4 to 7; National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov

Montgomery County Sentinel, Rockville, Maryland, 11 August 1960, page 12; Library of Congress, Chronicling America, sn83016209

Find a Grave, memorial 143797255, Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Prince George's County, Maryland, photograph added by Stephen Decker, 16 March 2015

New York, County Marriages, Niagara County, 18 August 1927 (FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:KZ9Z-6C4); United States Census 1930, District of Columbia (FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:XM27-TMB); United States Census 1940, District of Columbia, ED 1-478, sheet 11A (FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:K733-B1B); United States Census 1950, District of Columbia, ED 1-1028, sheet 21, line 5; Washington Times, 21 June 1933; Montgomery County Sentinel, 29 December 1955, 29 March 1956, 30 January 1958, 6 October 1960, 14 March 1961, 11 July and 15, 22 and 29 August 1963; Evening Star, 12 December 1952 and 22 May 1953; Evening Star, 17 June 1978, death notice of Beatrice K. Hileman (FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:QPBV-49V8); Evening Star, 19 June 1980, death notice of Evelyn Hirrlinger (FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:QPBV-KQ4L); United States Social Security Death Index; Find a Grave memorial 143797272

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