Russell Hall - Genealogy - Ancestry - Descendancy

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Birth	10 May 1914 Montague, Muskegon, Michigan, USA
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Death	17 January 2004 (Age 89) Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska, USA Source: Obituaries - GenealogyBank Source Text: ANCHORAGE: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice Anchorage Daily News ‎(AK)‎ - January 25, 2004 Deceased Name: ANCHORAGE Anchorage resident Russell Hall, 89, died of lung cancer Jan. 17, 2004, at Providence Alaska Medical Center. A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Monday at Evergreen Memorial Chapel, 737 E St., with a reception following. His cremated remains will be scattered over his favorite fishing hole at Deep Creek. Mr. Hall was born May 10, 1914, in Montague, Mich. In 1947, he and his family drove up the Alaska Highway to Anchorage. Mr. Hall worked as a carpenter on Elmendorf Air Force Base for Birch, Lytle and Green. After work slowed there, he pursued a dream of prospecting for gold in Alaska. He had a great experience diving for gold in the streams of the Kenai Peninsula and near Paxton, his family wrote. In the November 1961 issue of Skin Diver magazine, there was a five-page article with pictures titled "Alaskan Gold, the Hard Way" telling all about his and his partners' project. Between his prospecting adventures, he worked on several housing projects around Anchorage. "However, as he truly was a cabinetmaker by trade, he went to work for Tudor Cabinet Shop," his family wrote. When he bought the business in 1965, he moved to the corner of Boniface Parkway and the Glenn Highway, where he was building a four-plex. He called his business Hall's Cabinet and Window Shop. He soon moved his family into the four-plex. His family wrote: "He was always an avid fisherman. He once bought a halibut boat and tried his hand at long-lining. In the early days, when it was allowed, he set-netted for salmon at Point Woronzof. Hunting was a passion, and he supplied his family with plenty of wild game. "In the early days of the Fur Rendezvous, on three separate occasions, Russell won awards for having the curliest, blackest and longest beard. "He enjoyed breaking horses, raising dogs, mining and diving for gold, flying, trapping and growing roses and gardenias." His family also wrote that he was a "beloved husband, father and grandfather. He touched everyone's life that he met. He was always happy, joking and singing. He will be sorely missed. He was always the best husband, father and grandfather a family could ever have." He is survived by his wife, Gladys; children, Brian Hall and Pamela Erdle; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and sisters, Coralois Begle, Rosella Stout and Charlotte Kowalski. Arrangements were with Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Edition: Final Page: B7 Copyright ‎(c)‎ 2004, Anchorage Daily News
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