C. Wayne Hill, 86, of North Platte, died May 12, 2013 at Centennial Park Retirement Village. He was born Dec. 11, 1926, in Tryon to A.C. and Helen Hill. The family moved to North Platte, then to Paxton, when Hill was in junior high, and then back to North Platte. As a high school senior, he began working afternoons and Saturdays at the Telegraph on Feb. 18, 1944, under a special program initiated during the war years. It wasn't Hill's first printing job. He learned the trade working for the Kenneth Newcomb family at the Paxton Times, beginning when he was 13 or 14. After moving to North Platte in 1942, Hill had worked at the O'Connor Five and Ten Cent Store and at the Ford garage before taking the Telegraph job. He began working full time after graduating from North Platte High School in the spring of 1944. He left for the Army Jan. 18, 1945, and served in Oklahoma, California, Saipan and Guam, reaching the rank of staff sergeant. He returned to North Platte and the Telegraph in October 1946, about the time the newspaper was being merged with the Daily Bulletin. The Telegraph is where he met his wife, the former Evelyn Jacobsen, who had come to work in the circulation department, where her brother, Roy, was circulation manager. They were married June 5, 1948. When Hill began working at the Telegraph, it was located at 116 West Front. He helped in the move to 315 East Fifth in May, 1948, and he helped in the move from that location to the newspaper's present location at 621 North Chestnut in February, 1981. He saw newspaper production go from hot metal, raised-type printing to offset; from Linotypes to computer typesetting; from black and white and few pictures to liberal use of photographs and color. Hill had put together more ads and been a part of more editions of the Telegraph than anyone working at the paper, when he retired as advertising services supervisor Jan. 1, 1989, just a few weeks shy of 45 years after he started. He was preceded in death by his wife, who died in December of 1989, four sisters, Carolyn, Gladys, Velma and Harriet, and one brother, Cecil. Survivors include two sons, Gary (Marylee) of Lincoln and Brian (Mary) of Overland Park, Kansas; two grandsons, Greg and Scott (Kenna) of North Platte; one step-granddaughter, Kelsey Benz of Overland Park, Kansas; five great-grandsons, Micheal, Cory, Casey, Tyler and Trevor, all of North Platte; many nieces and nephews; and special friend, Grace Wemple, of Gothenburg. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and American Legion Post 163, where he had recently been honored as a 65-year member. He was an avid sports fan and a longtime follower of the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the St. Louis Cardinals. He helped coach his sons' baseball teams and enjoyed bowling, camping, fishing and travel. He visited all 50 states, the last being North Dakota in 1998. Services will be at 11:00 Thursday at Carpenter Memorial Chapel in North Platte with the Dr. Rico Kotrous, pastor of New Life Ministries of Lincoln, officiating. Burial will be at Fort McPherson National Cemetery. A memorial has been established in his memory. Visitation will be from 8:30 am to 8:00 pm Wednesday at Carpenter Memorial Chapel.