Jill Lyn Hallock

Jill Lyn Slonacker Hallock. An angel named Jill Lyn Hallock passed from our presence on April 11, 2025, in Gilbert, Arizona. Jill Lyn was born in the Honolulu General Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii on June 15, 1944. Her father, Jack Slonacker, was stationed at CINCPAC Fleet Headquarters, as an Intelligence Officer for Admiral Nimitz, during World War II. Her mother, Josephine Slonacker gave birth to her first beautiful baby and two years later she and Jack had another daughter, Jan Slonacker. Jill Lyn attended schools in Hawaii until she was a teenage, when the family moved to Wisconsin. She later graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in education. She taught kindergarten in Illinois for two years before moving to Ganado, Arizona to teach children of the Navajo Nation. It was in Ganado that she met her husband, Kenneth Hallock, at a lunch with a mutual friend. In only two weeks Ken and Jill were engaged and six weeks later they were married in North Phoenix. They recited their own wedding vows to each other at that special occasion. The love birds just celebrated their 55th anniversary, March 29, 2025.

A Celebration of Life will be held Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:00am located at Meldrum Mortuary, 52 N Macdonald Mesa, AZ 85201.