Marguerite Hill Kitchener
March 20 1921 – April 6 2017
Marguerite Hill Kitchener, 96, beloved mother of Doug Kitchener, IT Support Specialist in Rockville, passed away peacefully on April 6th at Riderwood Village in Silver Spring after a seven-year battle with dementia. She was preceded in death by Harry Kitchener, her husband of more than 62 years, who died in February 2008.
Mrs. Kitchener was born Marguerite Joyce Hill in Thief River Falls Minnesota on March 20 1921 and grew up on her parents' farm outside the small town of Brooks in Red Lake County Minnesota. She attended high school in Montfort Wisconsin where she lived with aunts and uncles. After graduating from Montfort High School in 1939, she attended the Minnesota School of Business in Minneapolis, where she completed her studies in September 1943 and received certificate as an Executive Secretary. She was placed as a medical secretary with the US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Minneapolis and soon accepted an offer to transfer to Washington DC as a World War II “government girl”. There she met the love of her life, Army 1st Lt. Harry Kitchener, and they were married in May 1945.
After the war she worked for Real Estate Mortgage of Washington DC and the BF Saul Company before the Kitcheners began their family.
Marguerite was active at Grace Episcopal Church in Silver Spring for many years, where at different times she taught Sunday School, sung in the choir, worked in the church's Pennyworth Shop, and served with the Women of Grace Church and on the Altar Guild.
She raised three children (2 wild sons and a daughter), kept an immaculate and loving home, worked part-time for Montgomery County Schools Supporting Services, and was a wonderful mother who could cook and bake like no one else.
In later life, she and her husband drove for Colesville Meals on Wheels for more than 20 years.
Her interests included her family, current events, art, classical music, playing bridge, sewing, quilting, knitting, and collecting cobalt blue glass and Christmas and Mother’s Day plates.
In addition to her son Doug, she leaves a daughter, Ellen Marchessault (Richard) of Carol Stream IL, a second son, David (Cyndi), of Phoenix AZ, four granddaughters, and three great-granddaughters.