Pennsauken crash victim Sean Hill recalled for love of food, fireworks

PENNSAUKEN — The victim of a deadly traffic accident here is being remembered as a young man with a taste for food and fireworks.

Sean Hill, a 20-year-old Pennsauken native, also focused on the needs of others, said his mother, Tiffany Hill.

“He helped people all the time, and he didn’t mind getting his hands dirty if he had to,” she said.

“Everybody that met Sean remembered him.”

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Hill was fatally injured as a passenger in an April 16 collision between a vehicle and a truck on Route 130 in Pennsauken.

He had changed jobs a few weeks before the crash, and was riding home with a co-worker when the accident occurred on the 9000 block of the southbound highway.

The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office has said the 3:20 p.m. crash is under investigation.

Hill was well-known in the township’s school system, where he worked as a groundskeeper after graduating from Pennsauken High School.

"As a student, Sean always accepted every challenge and gave 100 percent effort,” said a former teacher at Pennsauken High, Maureen O'Brien-Wagner.

She noted his first place shot put performance in senior year helped the track and field team win the state championship.

He continued his support of the team after graduation “by volunteering to demonstrate and work with athletes on shot put as well as cheering them on during their track races,” she said.

Tiffany Hill noted her son "was very big and stocky," but "he came off as a big teddy bear."

“All the kids know Sean,” said his mother. “He was security for the football games.”

Hill’s interests were “work, church and food,” she observed.

“He loved to eat,” she recalled of the second oldest of her four children. “He’d be on social media, looking at all the (restaurants) opening up. He’d say, ‘Let’s go here! Let’s go there!’”

Hill “particularly enjoyed dishes with white rice, soul food, Spanish, Mexican and Chinese cuisines,” his obituary noted.

Hill also was a fireworks enthusiast, saving money to put on his own pyrotechnic shows at a local ballfield.

A GoFundMe campaign has raised almost $8,000 by Thursday morning for the Hill family’s funeral expenses.

Hill’s services were being held Friday at St. Matthew A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia, with burial to follow at Morgan Cemetery in Cinnaminson.

Anyone with information about the April 16 accident is asked to call Camden County Prosecutor's Detective Samuel Funches at 856-397-4000.

.Jim Walsh is a senior reporter for the Courier-Post, Burlington County Times and The Daily Journal. Reach him at jwalsh@cpsj.com.

This article originally appeared on Cherry Hill Courier-Post: Sean Hill, a recent Pennsauken High graduate, dies in Route 130 crash