Hill, Cecil

Arizona Daily Star, May 12, 2012: Excerpt from "Life stories: Tucsonan immortalized on mural": …
Gail Fafard didn't remember anything in particular about the day her photo was snapped while she and a couple of girlfriends strolled downtown after school. It was 1946 or '47 and the trio of junior high students were headed to a soda fountain for a Coke. Fafard, nee Hill, couldn't have anticipated that decades later her image would appear 18 feet tall, immortalized as a tile mural at the Broadway Underpass. "She told me that it was there if I wanted to see it. She said it was kind of cool, but there wasn't any bragging or anything like that," said childhood friend Barbara Soto. Now the mural serves as a memorial to Fafard, who died April 24. She was 78. Fafard's family moved to Tucson when she was 9. Her father, Cecil Hill, was a Walgreen Drug Store pharmacist and a troubleshooter for the chain. When he was transferred from a Mexico City store to Tucson, his wife, Tee, and their daughter moved to Arizona from Kansas City, Kan. …