Death Claims Retired Grocer Kernke

Services for W A. Hall. 76, retired city grocery store and service station operator, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Smith & Kernke funeral chapel. Burial will be in Arlington Memorial cemetery.

Hall died Monday morning in Wesley hospital after being stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage. Born June 19, 1881, in Fannin county, Texas, Hall came to Oklahoma with his family in 1891 and lived first at Durant. He farmed near Durant until 1929 when he moved to Oklahoma City. From 1929 until  1945 he operated a grocery store and service station.

Mr. and Mrs. Hall, who were married in Durant, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Saturday. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Bolvia E. .Hall, 8400 NE 23: three sons. Jack Hall,. 7200 NE 23; Huston R. Hall, 2500 NW Eubanks, and R. C. Hall, 2232 NW 31; 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
 

William Arthur Hall
19 Jun 1881 - 14 Apr 1958 (aged 76)

Burial Arlington Memory Gardens

Belvia Elizabeth Simons Hall
2 Jan 1894 - 1 Aug 1983 (aged 89)

Burial Arlington Memory Gardens

Belvia Elizabeth of OKC, born Jan. 2, 1894 in Clebourne TX, and died in OKC Aug. 1, at the age of 89. She was a member of the First Missionary Baptist Church in MWC. Survivors include 2 sons, Huston Hall of OKC, and R.C. Hall of Piedmont; 2 brothers, Nelson Simons of Caddo OK, and Charlie Simons of Hereford TX; a sister, Rosie Brown of Amarillo TX; 13 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and 7 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband W.A. Hall in 1958, and a son, Jack Hall. Funeral services will be at 11 am Thursday, Aug. 4 at the Smith & Kernke Funeral Chapel, with burial to be in the Arlington Memory Gardens.
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