G W Hall (1925 - 2016)

Born 26 Jan 1925 in Sage, Izard, Arkansas, United States

Ancestors

Died 22 Nov 2016 at age 91 in Wenatchee, Chelan, Washington, United States

Biography

Dub was born January 26, 1925 to Troy and Lily Turnbull Hall of “Opossum Trot”, Izard County, Arkansas an unincorporated area now referred to as Sage. He was one of eleven children.

During World War II he volunteered for the U. S. Army on his 18th birthday in Little Rock, Arkansas, the same year his family sold their farm in Sage and moved to Wenatchee, Washington. He received his Basic Training in Camp Wolters, Texas and was then sent to Fort Meade, New Jersey to await deployment to the European Theater of Operations, where he took part with the 29th Infantry Division, 175th Infantry Regiment in the June 1944 invasion of Normandy, France. He received a purple heart owing to wounds he sustained during three separate battles between June 7 and November 22, 1944 and lived with shrapnel within his body the rest of his life.

After the war, he joined his parents in Wenatchee and used the GI Bill for vocational training in Chicago in auto body repair. Upon completion of this schooling he returned to Washington State, where he worked for an automobile dealership in Pasco, before moving to Moses Lake in 1951. Here he apprenticed at Dunn’s Auto Body until buying the business in 1959, renaming it Hall’s Body Shop, and operating it until his retirement in 1992.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Neva Killian Hall of Moses Lake, and their son Douglas [Faye] Hall of Spokane. He is survived by: his wife Roberta; daughter Dena [John] Fought; daughter Sharon [Dan] Dale of Moses Lake; daughter Linda [Tom] Fea, of Sacramento, CA; son Steven [Pat] Gilbertson, Mesa, AZ; Son Robert Gilbertson [Debbie] Ellsworth, WI; and 13 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.

He belonged to the Moses Lake Chapters of the Elks, Lions, and Eagle Lodges and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/173182951/g-w-hall : accessed 05 May 2021), memorial page for G W “Dub” Hall (26 Jan 1925–22 Nov 2016), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #173182951, citing Washington State Veterans Cemetery, Medical Lake, Spokane County, Washington, USA ; Maintained by LDR (contributor 47300676) .