Rockport, MA — With her family at her bedside, Doris A. Hillier, wife of the late Pingree F. “Bib” Hillier, died peacefully in the early evening of December 24 at her home in Pigeon Cove, where she had lived for 66 years. She was born on January 2, 1916, in Pigeon Cove, to the late Charles W. and Wilhelmina “Minnie” (Niskanen) Nelson. Her father’s ancestral name was Pinola but when her grandfather arrived at Ellis Island from Finland it was changed to Nelson. The family lovingly joked that Doris lived to 96 because she was a “stubborn, full-blooded Finn”. Doris graduated from Rockport High School in 1933, and attended Salem Normal School.
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