Margaret Hunt Hill

Margaret Hunt Hill
Born	October 19, 1915 Lake Village, Arkansas
Died	June 14, 2007 (age 91) Dallas, Texas
Education	Mary Baldwin College
Occupation	philanthropist
Spouse(s)	Albert Galatyn Hill, Sr.
Children	3, including Lyda Hill
Parent(s)	H. L. Hunt and Lyda Bunker

Margaret Hunt Hill (1915–2007) was an American heiress and philanthropist.

Margaret Hunt Hill was born on October 19, 1915, in Lake Village, Arkansas. Her father was H. L. Hunt (1889–1974) and her mother, Lyda Bunker (1889-1955). She had six siblings: Caroline Rose Hunt (born 1923), H. L. Hunt III (1917–2005), Lyda Bunker Hunt (born and died in 1925), Nelson Bunker Hunt (1926–2014), William Herbert Hunt (1929), and Lamar Hunt (1932–2006).

She grew up in El Dorado, Arkansas and Tyler, Texas, and moved to Dallas, Texas in 1938. She graduated from Mary Baldwin College, a private women's college in Staunton, Virginia.

She worked as an assistant for her father, until she got married.

Together with her husband, she built two luxury resorts in Colorado Springs, Colorado: the Garden of the Gods Club and the Kissing Camels Club. She also landscaped the Falcon Stadium of the United States Air Force Academy in 1962.

She served as a Treasurer of the Dallas Junior League, President of the Dallas Women's Club, as well as Chairman of the Dallas Easter Seals and the Dallas Society for Crippled Children.

She founded the Dallas Heritage Society, where she served as a Director throughout her life. She also served as Vice President of the Dallas Historical Society. From 1981 to 1987, she served on the Governor's Texas Historical Society, and from 1981 to 1988, as a Treasurer of the Friends of the Governor's Mansion. Together with Van Cliburn (1934–2013), she served as co-Chairman of the 60th Anniversary of the Discovery of the East Texas Oil Field. The ceremony was held at the East Texas Oil Field Museum, which she helped create.

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