On May 2, 2026, Gene Elston Hillman, 82, died in the West Chester Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania of "natural causes".
Gene was born October 26, 1943 to Barbara Kelley Hillman and Elston Hillman in another University of Pennsylvania hospital, this one in Philadelphia — a hospital that literally saved his life in the 1980’s, almost 50 years later. Gene’s early years were spent in what was then the “farm country” of Downingtown, where he liked to say his closest playmates were “cows and horses” as well as the three large Collies his parents owned as pets.
