Obituaries

Dr. Hill retired this year as chairman of Ministries United Silver Spring/Takoma Park and last year received the Montgomery County Path of Achievement Award for community service. An ordained Presbyterian elder for many years, she was the first elected female elder of the Sixth Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh and had been a member of the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church since 1980.

She was active in the Pittsburgh and National Capital presbyteries and worked to establish the Silver Spring church as a More Light congregation, making it part of a movement in the U.S. Presbyterian Church that welcomes openly gay members and accepts gay clergy.

Dr. Hill was born in Johnstown, Pa., and received three degrees from the University of Pittsburgh -- her bachelor's in 1945, a master's in nursing in 1949 and a doctorate of nursing in 1966.

She was a psychiatric nurse and nursing administrator at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh and at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Hill taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing for many years and developed its master's program in nursing administration.

In 1970, she moved to Washington to work for HEW. She retired from that position in 1994.

Her husband, Robert C. Hill, died in 1961.

Survivors include a daughter, the Rev. Lisa Hill of New York, and a brother.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Peter A. PalaigosAnnapolis Business Owner

Peter Anthony Palaigos, 84, who owned and operated a pool hall on Annapolis's Main Street that he turned into a restaurant called Acme Bar and Grill, died June 4 at his home in Annapolis. He had Parkinson's disease.

In the late 1940s, Mr. Palaigos joined his father-in-law's Annapolis business, Brunswick Billiards. He soon took over the pool hall, which became widely known as Pete's Place.