Dixie Donald Kilham

Blev 78 år.

Barn med Anna Mary Winnberg (1923 - 2012)

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Sgt. US Army Air Forces World War II Veteran.
Former owner and operator of The Hilltop House Hotel in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

Burial:
Harpers Cemetery ,Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA

Dixie D. Kilham
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - Dixie Donald Kilham, 78, of Harpers Ferry, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 1998, at his home.
Born in Pittsburgh on March 5, 1920, he was the son of the late Richard Cornelius and Edna Irene Merriman Kilham.
As a youth in Baltimore, he sang at the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Michaels and All Angels.
He graduated from City College, and from Duke University in North Carolina. In 1993 he was made a member of Duke's Half-Century Club.
He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.
He received a bachelor of laws degree in June 1949 from the University of Maryland Law School and was admitted to the Maryland Bar on Aug. 3, 1949.
He acquired Hilltop Theatre School of Arts to promote speech, acting and dance. He bought Hilltop House Hotel in Harpers Ferry in 1955 and brought players to Harpers Ferry for summer theatre-in-the-round productions. He was an innkeeper from 1955 to 1987.
He and Robert Angel renovated and refurbished The Old Opera House in Charles Town.
He was on the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council from 1967 to 1971. During that time, he built the national Historical Wax Museum in Harpers Ferry.
In Harpers Ferry, he was a member of the Public Service Commission until his retirement. He also was director and later vice president of the Bank of Brunswick in Maryland.
He is survived by one daughter, Dianna Kilham of Williamsport; one sister, Virginia Current of Columbus, Ohio; one granddaughter, Chloe Kilham; and nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by two sisters, Jacqueline Kilham Mogowski and Vivian Kilham Odell.
Services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at Camp Hill-Wesley United Methodist Church in Harpers Ferry. Burial will be in the Kilham family lot of Harpers Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to a local charity of one's choice.
Arrangements are by Eackles-Spencer Funeral Home in Harpers Ferry.

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