Harold Dean Hall ^{1 2 3 4}

  Birth Notes:

Name: Harold Dean Hall
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 27 Feb 1925
Event Place: Muscatine, Iowa, United States
Event Place: Muscatine
Gender: Male
Father's Name: Jack Perry Hall
Father's Birthplace: Nassau Iowa
Father's Age: 39
Father's Birth Year (Estimated): 1886
Mother's Name: Eva May Wymer
Mother's Birthplace: Cedar Co Iowa
Mother's Age: 28
Mother's Birth Year (Estimated): 1897

Citing this Record
"Iowa, Birth Records, 1921-1942," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPKB-7FYQ : 21 May 2019), Eva May Wymer in entry for Harold Dean Hall, 27 Feb 1925; citing Birth, Muscatine, Iowa, United States, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth Image: 27 February 1925, in Seventy-Six Township, Muscatine County, IA. ¹

• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Grandview, IA on April 1930. ²

1930 US Census
Sheet 2B, District 0012, Household 44, Roll 666
Grandview, Louisa County, Iowa
Harold D. Hall..Son..5..IA

(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1940 US Census in Fruitland Township, Muscatine, IA on 6 April 1940. ³

1940 US Census
Sheet 2B, District 70-3, Family 39, Roll 1186
Fruitland Township, Muscatine County, Iowa
RR #6, house rented $5
Last Place of Residence: Same Place
Harold E. Hall..Son..15..IA..6th grade

(Living with parents.)
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• He was buried after 11 August 2004 in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Muscatine, IA.

Find A Grave Memorial 39811317
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• His obituary was published in the Muscatine Journal on 12 August 2004 in Muscatine, IA.

⁵ Harold D. Hall, 79, Muscatine, died Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2004, at his home after an extended illness.

Service at Grace Lutheran Church. The Rev. Leif Pohl will officiate. Casket bearers are Randy Neipert, Kerry Neipert, Robert Neipert, Randy Reed, Glen Pace and Rich Kellor. Honorary casket bearers are Lucas Hall, Bryan Little Jr., Justin Opfer and Gabe McDonald. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. .

Visitation at Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home, 2907 Mulberry Ave. Memorials may be directed to Unity Hospice or Grace Lutheran Church.

Mr. Hall was born on Feb. 27, 1925, in Letts, the son of John Perry and Eva May Wymer Hall. He married Betty M. Gravert on June 8, 1946, at Grace Lutheran Church, Muscatine.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Force 84th Airdrome in the South Pacific from 1943-1946. He was the youngest man in the unit at age 18.

He worked at Henderson Garage for 10 years and then retired from H. J. Heinz Co. with 31 years of service.

He was a member of Grace Lutheran Church, Muscatine Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1565 and the Moose Lodge. In his younger years he enjoyed boating and water skiing on the Mississippi River, square dancing, NASCAR and stock car races. He also painted many stock cars for his son and friends. He enjoyed trout fishing and camping at his favorite campground Pulpit Rock, Decorah. He led his Iowa caravan of friends to winter in Rio Hondo, Texas, for 18 years.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Judy K. Maxwell and husband, Douglas, of Muscatine; a son, Jack E. Hall and wife, Tami, of Muscatine; five grandchildren, Amanda Laske, Brandi Little and husband, Bryan Jr., Lisa Opfer and husband, Justin, Lucas Hall and fiance, Tina Franklin, and Natalie Maxwell-McDonald and husband, Gabe; a step-great-granddaughter, Madeline Little; and three sisters, Eunice Loftin of Stanwood, Roberta Carlton of Davenport and Lucy Tennell and husband, Floyd, of Muscatine.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, William and Donald; and a sister, Dorothy.

(Source: Muscatine Journal, 12 Aug 2004)
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Harold married Betty Mae Gravert, daughter of Emil Otto Gravert and Paulina L. Mackin, on 8 June 1946 in Muscatine, IA. (Betty Mae Gravert was born on 31 May 1925 in Iowa,⁶ died on 14 April 2014 in Muscatine, IA ⁶ and was buried after 14 April 2014 in Muscatine, IA ⁶.)