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Mrs Alice Mitchell <I>Scott</I> Hill

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Mrs Alice Mitchell Scott Hill

Birth
Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Death
21 Apr 1982 (aged 72)
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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Video of Alice Mitchell Scott Hill with husband Thomas Gardner Hill with her brothers, Norman Scott and US Senator Hugh Doggett Scott and the couple in Hawaii (last half of video) https://youtu.be/o9MY-7fize0

Alice was born at the family home, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Hugh Doggett Scott, a banker, and Lola Haynie Scott.

She graduated Fredericksburg High School in Fredericksburg Virginia, as an Honor Student. She attended Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Alice was a world traveler, documentarian, Atlanta television personality "Tug Boat Alice" on the Skipper Ray Show, and radio personality. Her documentary films were approved of and or archived in National Geographic and NBC Studios collections in the early 1940's. Represented by Getts out of New York she served as a professional speaker with peer Dale Carnegie and other influential speakers. Co owner of The Scott Gallery, she was an art collector and proponent of the Arts in Atlanta. She served in leadership roles at The High Museum of Art.

Alice was married to and adored by her husband T. Gardner Hill, a graduate of Georgia Tech and Johns Hopkins University, patented inventor, and Aeronautical Engineer at Lockheed.

She was a member of the Atlanta Yacht Club, Cherokee Town and Country Club, and a leader for Youth For Understanding for which there is a tree in her honor at headquarters.

Alice is the sister of long time US Senator Hugh D. Scott, National Republican Chairman, and Minority Leader and Norman Scott. She is the mother of Richard Scott Hill, a college Professor at West Georgia College, and creator of The Kessler Campanile on the Georgia Tech Campus, a Marietta resident, who lived at 104 McDonald Street. She is also the mother of Mariettan Elin Quicksall Mullins (by her 1st husband Dr, John Braden Quicksall), formerly Fowler, who is a college Professor at Southern Poly Technical College, Kennesaw State University, and Cobb County Schools, also a Marietta resident formerly of Chinquapin Drive, historic Mockingbird Hill home on McDonald Street, Maxwell Street and The Oaks.

Her grandchildren Debra Hill Frieden, Ralph W. Fowler III, and Charles Fowler graduated from Marietta High School. Granddaughter Tanya Hill graduated from Northside High School, Atlanta. Her granddaughter, Debra Hill Frieden served as the second youngest elected female State Representative in the Georgia House of Representatives (as Debra Mills) representing a large district of Marietta, Austell, Powder Springs, Kennesaw and unincorporated Mableton.

Alice is a direct descendent of many Revolutionary War Patriots, and a descendant of Mary Ball Washington's family, mother of George Washington. President George Washington left $300.00 to in his handwriting and words, "distant relative" Sarah Ball Haynie, a relation of Alice's mother, Lola Scott (nee Haynie).

Alice was deeply loved by all who knew her.
Video of Alice Mitchell Scott Hill with husband Thomas Gardner Hill with her brothers, Norman Scott and US Senator Hugh Doggett Scott and the couple in Hawaii (last half of video) https://youtu.be/o9MY-7fize0

Alice was born at the family home, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Hugh Doggett Scott, a banker, and Lola Haynie Scott.

She graduated Fredericksburg High School in Fredericksburg Virginia, as an Honor Student. She attended Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Alice was a world traveler, documentarian, Atlanta television personality "Tug Boat Alice" on the Skipper Ray Show, and radio personality. Her documentary films were approved of and or archived in National Geographic and NBC Studios collections in the early 1940's. Represented by Getts out of New York she served as a professional speaker with peer Dale Carnegie and other influential speakers. Co owner of The Scott Gallery, she was an art collector and proponent of the Arts in Atlanta. She served in leadership roles at The High Museum of Art.

Alice was married to and adored by her husband T. Gardner Hill, a graduate of Georgia Tech and Johns Hopkins University, patented inventor, and Aeronautical Engineer at Lockheed.

She was a member of the Atlanta Yacht Club, Cherokee Town and Country Club, and a leader for Youth For Understanding for which there is a tree in her honor at headquarters.

Alice is the sister of long time US Senator Hugh D. Scott, National Republican Chairman, and Minority Leader and Norman Scott. She is the mother of Richard Scott Hill, a college Professor at West Georgia College, and creator of The Kessler Campanile on the Georgia Tech Campus, a Marietta resident, who lived at 104 McDonald Street. She is also the mother of Mariettan Elin Quicksall Mullins (by her 1st husband Dr, John Braden Quicksall), formerly Fowler, who is a college Professor at Southern Poly Technical College, Kennesaw State University, and Cobb County Schools, also a Marietta resident formerly of Chinquapin Drive, historic Mockingbird Hill home on McDonald Street, Maxwell Street and The Oaks.

Her grandchildren Debra Hill Frieden, Ralph W. Fowler III, and Charles Fowler graduated from Marietta High School. Granddaughter Tanya Hill graduated from Northside High School, Atlanta. Her granddaughter, Debra Hill Frieden served as the second youngest elected female State Representative in the Georgia House of Representatives (as Debra Mills) representing a large district of Marietta, Austell, Powder Springs, Kennesaw and unincorporated Mableton.

Alice is a direct descendent of many Revolutionary War Patriots, and a descendant of Mary Ball Washington's family, mother of George Washington. President George Washington left $300.00 to in his handwriting and words, "distant relative" Sarah Ball Haynie, a relation of Alice's mother, Lola Scott (nee Haynie).

Alice was deeply loved by all who knew her.

Gravesite Details

of Fredricksburg Virginia, married to Thomas Gardner Hill, Children, Richard Scott Hill, Elin Quicksall



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  • Created by: Debra Frieden
  • Added: Mar 15, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49728210/alice_mitchell-hill: accessed ), memorial page for Mrs Alice Mitchell Scott Hill (6 Jan 1910–21 Apr 1982), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49728210, citing Saint James Episcopal Cemetery and Cremation Gardens, Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Debra Frieden (contributor 47255065).