Alice Ann Hill of Lewes died peacefully Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. Known as “Nanny Ali” from her professional calling, she was born in Wilmington Nov. 8, 1943, to the late Marvin Watson Hill and Alice Ann Flood Hill.
Ali was raised in Wilmington and graduated from Saint Elizabeth School. At 19, she completed training from an elite British Governess program in New York City. Her first assignment as a qualified governess was for the Astor family in NYC. Other prominent assignments to regional socialite families on the Eastern Seaboard included the Kennedys and DuPont’s. As prestigious assignments continued, Ali moved many times, including to Florida working for the McIntosh family (A&P) and Los Angeles, working for the Bogart family (Casablanca Records).
With a fun and loving personality, Ali’s duties immersed her in the jet-setting lives of her clients and their children. Dear friends included disco singer Donna Summer and actress Judith Chapman of television and movie fame. Globe-trotting travel assignments took Ali around the world…