Obituary of Nancy Keene Boyle Hite
August 31, 1919 to June 4, 2011

     Nancy Keene Boyle Hite passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on June 4th at Hospice of the Palm Beaches in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, she was 91. Mrs. Hite was the widow of the late Robert H. "Bob" Hite, Sr., news anchor and announcer for CBS Radio and Television from 1944 to 1979. Since her husband's passing in 2000, Mrs. Hite had been living with and in the care of her daughter, Cynthia H. Content, and her beloved son-in-law, Brian Content, who remembers Nancy as having 'a song for every occasion.'

     Born in Mt. Vernon, New York, Mrs. Hite was the daughter of advertising entrepreneur and author John Douglas Boyle and Juanita Kirby Jessup Boyle, and grew up in their home on Chimney Corner Harbor in Greenwich, Connecticut. She attended Greenwich High School and won a scholarship to the Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New York City. Nancy then became a casting director for Compton Advertising in New York where she met her husband, Bob Hite, a widower with a three year old daughter, when he came in for an audition. They married in 1946.

     Mrs. Hite is survived by her two sisters, Rosemary Boyle McKinney and Faith Carter Boyle. She was the loving mother of her son, Robert Henry Hite, Jr., daughters, Cynthia Carter Hite Content and Kimberly Carter Hite Schad and step-daughter, Rev. Nancy Jean Hite Speck. She was the cherished grandmother of Britt Carter Canfield Fuhrmann, Eric Norbert Fuhrmann, Robert Philip Hite, Tyler Watkins Hite, Mark Morgan Schad and Carley Carter Schad, and her two great-granddaughters, Abigail Elizabeth Hite and Julia Claire Hite.

     A memorial service was held on June 28th, 2011 at the First Presbyterian Church, North Palm Beach, Florida.
 

Mrs. Hite enthusiastically supported the efforts of her daughter to save and restore an historic ancestral family home built in 1768, the "Solomon Carter House" in Albertson, Duplin, North Carolina. Soon to be on the National Historic Register, the old house and its grounds will be made available to the local population for events and used as a library, museum and meeting place.

Mrs. Hite’s mother, Juanita Boyle, searched for most of her life for evidence and documentation of this Revolutionary War ancestor who served, along with his brother, Edward, in the North Carolina Militia. Solomon Carter was Mrs. Hite’s 4th great-grandfather. The house was discovered in 2008, and purchased thereafter, by Nancy’s daughter, Cindy, who started a non-profit corporation, The Coolwater Historic Foundation, Inc.