Knute Hill [SEP] place of death
information clerk in the Bureau of Reclamation, Columbia Basin Project, Ephrata, Washington, from March 1949 until his retirement in 1951.
Later years.
Knute Hill died of a heart attack in his cabin in Desert Hot Springs, California. He was interred in the Terrace Heights Memorial Park, in Yakima, Washington. Records and papers associated with his political career are maintained at the Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.
External links.
- Washington State University Libraries
- Knute Hill register of papers in
Angeles to participate in the production of the Hollywood motion picture "The Spirit of Notre Dame" (released October 13, 1931). A father of four, Rockne had stopped over in Kansas City to visit his two eldest children, sons Bill and Knute, Jr., in boarding school there at Pembroke Hill.
The sudden, dramatic death of Rockne startled the nation, and triggered a national outpouring of grief, comparable to the deaths of presidents. President Herbert Hoover called Rockne's death "a national loss."