Jack Lewis Hiller, son of John Hiller, Jr and Louise Lewis was born on January 7, 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents and younger brother, Donald, to Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1949. Jack received a bachelor's degree in history from the College of William and Mary in 1953. He served as a corporal in the United States Army, stationed in Germany during the Korean conflict, and continued in the Army Reserves until 1961. After serving as a park ranger in Jamestown, Virginia, Jack returned to Fairfax County and began teaching American history at Groveton High School in 1959. At Groveton, he was introduced to Marion Roper, who was the school's assistant librarian, her first job after graduating from Winthrop University in South Carolina. They were married in 1961. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, while teaching, Jack also freelanced as a photographer for regional newspapers and compiled an impressive portfolio of historical figures, including Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Martin Luther King, Jr. His portrait of King is now part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. His photos of Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets, are part of museum collections in New York and Atlanta. One of Jack's points of pride was that, during this same period of his life, he was part of a successful movement to integrate the Fairfax Education Association, which had excluded African-American teachers from membership. Jack's son, John Franklin, was born in 1964 in Arlington, Virginia. In 1966, Jack earned a master's degree in education from the University of Virginia. His daughter, Elizabeth Lee, was born in 1968 while Jack was on sabbatical to earn a master's degree in history from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The family moved back to Fairfax County in 1969, settled in Springfield, and Jack returned to teaching at Groveton, which later became West Potomac High School. After participating in a field school in archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg, Jack co-founded and was a principal instructor for the Fairfax County Public School's Summer Seminar in Archaeology between 1973 and 1988. Students in this program helped to investigate over fifteen archaeological sites within Fairfax County. In 1980 he received a medal and monetary award from the United States Capital Historical Society for his work in teaching archaeology to high school students. Jack retired from teaching for Fairfax County in 1988 to devote his attention to the care of his son, John, who had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1986. Jack's son predeceased him in 1993 as did Jack's brother, Donald, in 2000. Jack served as a member of the Fairfax County History Commission beginning in 1981, and he chaired that body in 1994-1995. He also chaired, until his death, the commission's Historical Marker Committee, which determines the content and placement of Fairfax County's historical highway markers. He wrote extensively and lectured on the history of the Springfield area, and volunteered for the cultural resources division of the Fairfax County Park Authority, including serving as principal investigator for archaeological investigations at the Hidden Pond Nature Center. He served as a volunteer docent for ten years at Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason. Jack enjoyed being father-in-law to Carl H. Settlemyer, III and adored his two grandchildren, Rebecca and John, who lovingly refer to him as J-Pa. He volunteered at his grandchildren's school in Arlington quite frequently and never missed an important event. Jack was active up until the last few weeks of his life despite a chronic fatique and chest discomfort he began experiencing in the early fall of 2015. He underwent a heart catheterization procedure at Inova Alexandria Hospital on January 15, 2016, which is when a 90% blockage to his heart was discovered. He was hospitalized immediately. After some debate as to whether he should have triple bypass surgery, Jack was transferred to Inova Fairfax Hospital to have a specially-trained team of cardiologists perform a stent procedure to open the blockage. During this procedure, on January 21, 2016, Jack suffered cardiac arrest. Doctors were able to revive and stabilize him, and the stents were successfully placed to open the blockage. Though in critical condition, Jack began to slowly recover with a fully functioning heart. He was scheduled to be transferred to a rehabilitation hospital on February 3, 2016. At some point, however, he developed a gastrointestinal bleed that began to fully manifest itself on that morning. Jack died at 10:30pm that night with his wife and daughter at his side. A memorial service is scheduled for February 13th at 2:00pm at Messiah United Methodist Church on Rolling Road in Springfield, which is to be preceded by a private burial service at Fairfax Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to The John Franklin Hiller Memorial Scholarship Fund c/o The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia, www.cfnova.org.