She took her early schooling at Reber School, Girvin, and high school at Davidson and Sion Academy, Prince Albert, where she distinguished herself as a music student. She qualified as a teacher at the Normal School in Regina and taught for a number of years in rural schools and on one occasion sewed as principal of the high school at Enchant, Alta. She married Stewart Hill in 1918 and, after five years at Enchant they moved to a farm near Bladworth, Sask.

After her marriage she continued teaching in nearby country schools, travelling to and from school with a horse and buggy. Throughout her teaching and farming career Alice Hill was an active worker for her community. She taught piano, played the organ for church, was Sunday School superintendent, president of the Bladworth Womenís Missionary Society, served as president of the Saskatoon Presbyterial for the United Church womenís auxiliary, led a Canadian Girls in Training group and even acted as a substitute minister.

When she became involved in the Saskatchewan Homemakers Club she rose quickly through the ranks to become provincial president for 1948-48. She represented her organization at the Associated Country Women of the World conference in Toronto in 1952 and the Federated Womenís Institutes of Canada sessions in Guelph in 1987. For eight years she edited the SWI publication "The Second Penny," and she also did some writing about homemakers for The Western Producer. She attained the Womenís Institutesí award of merit at the district level and an honorary life membership in the Saskatchewan Womenís Institutes.

Alice Hill held education in high regard, serving as convener of education for the Saskatchewan Council of Women. She was highly respected by her peers for when the Consumers Association of Canada was formed she represented Saskatchewan women at the inaugural meeting.

In her later years she remained active, helping to organize pensioners and senior citizens. She was the author of two books, "The Pioneerlings", and "A Pioneer Remembers". When she moved into Prairie View Lodge at Davidson she continued gardening and often won prizes at local fairs with her flowers. She died in 1988.