[1] Hill was born in Brunnerton in New Zealand's West Coast region on 28 August 1893.
She worked as a live-in maid at a boarding house in Greenwood Street, Frankton, Hamilton, in the 1920s.
She returned to Frankton during World War II, where she lived on an invalid's benefit.
Despite rumours that she was at the station waiting for a fiancé or son who had been killed in a war, a family friend confirmed there was no truth to this.
[1] Hill died in 1983 and was buried in the Hamilton Park Cemetery.