| Parents:
Education: Marriage: |
George Allen Hall Nancy Henry U.S. Army Radio School Graduated Nov. 3, 1942 Omaha, NE U.S. Naval Training Center Great Lakes, IL CO 1278 R. Morrelli - C. S.P.C.O. Comdr June 22, 1944 Naval Training School EE8RM Arkansas 1944 Class Ann Frances Stimler September 14, 1936 Foley, Benton, Minnesota Witnesses were George Hall (Don's brother) and Leona Stimler |
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| Children: | Judith Ann | Apr. 8, 1937 | † Nov. 18, 1995 |
| Joseph Anthony | Dec. 27, 1938 | ||
| Terrence Donald | Oct. 3, 1946 | † Sept. 8, 2008 | |
| Teresa Marye | June 10, 1954 | † Nov. 5, 2010 |
| Vocation:
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Printer for the Omaha World and for Foley Independent. After the kids were long out of the house, Ann and Don both worked at International Products, a packaging company in Omaha. |
| Notes: | At the time of the April 11, 1940 U.S. Census, Donald was 24 years old and living with his wife Ann and their two |
| young children, Judith Ann and Joseph, in Foley Village, Benton, Minnesota in a home they rented for $20/month.
Donald was employed as the Editor and Manager of a weekly newspaper; he worked 60 hours a week for 52 weeks in 1939, earning $1,080. Anne was employed as a reporter at
the same weekly newspaper, working 10 hours a week for 13 weeks in 1939 and earning $180. Ann stated that she had completed high school through the 10th grade, and that
Donald was a high school graduate. Lodging with the Hall family was Edwin Winkleman, age 21, a high school graduate who was employed as a linotype operator at the newspaper. He worked 54 hours a week
for 52 weeks in 1939, earning $720. Donald and Ann had been living in the same place in April 1935, but Edwin had lived elsewhere in Benton County at that time.
Don lived in Foley, Minnesota; Los Angeles, California; Omaha, Nebraska; and Fairfield Bay, Arkansas. Joe Hall's memories of his father: "Don Hall was born in Los Angeles, CA, while the family was there for two years while his father was recuperating from ill health. His two avocations were electronics and golf. He was a ham radio operator from the time he was in high school. He took television repair under the G.I. Bill and always, much to Ann's dismay, had a t.v. in some state of repair sitting on one of the kitchen counters. Most of his repairs were done for the elderly at not much more the cost of parts." Dick Kampa reminisces on the Hall family: "Our family lived in Omaha right after WWII and would get together with the Halls for dinner now and then. Ann and my dad were cousins. Later as a teen I too became a ham radio operator and might have gotten the inspiration from seeing Don Hall talk to other hams on his radio. Terry must have been a toddler then. Joe and I were just a year apart - I was 7 and he was 8 years old - and we got along well. Judy was older and I just remember her as a nice older sister. Ann's hearty laugh was just like that of my aunt Pauline Robinson. Seems like that was an inherited characteristic which my dad shared, he could work up a good guffaw when he found something funny or silly" (from a Sept. 15, 2008 e-mail). |
| Ancestry: | The Balder Line [through marriage] |
| The Thomas Foley Line [through marriage] | |
| The Nicholas Hall Line | |
| The Franz Kampa Line [through marriage] | |
| The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage] |
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