Eldon Hill Hall
Eldon Hill Hall, loving Husband, Father, Grand Father
and Great Grandfather passed this mortal existence and
returned to his Father in Heaven on Monday, 26 March
2007, in the Veterans Hospital Nursing Home, in Salt
Lake City.
Eldon was born 2 December, 1920, in Wellsville, Utah,
to James Owen and Effie Hall, one of seven sons.
He was raised on a farm in Wellsville where they lived
in town during the winter and moved to a two room
house on the family farm outside of Wellsville during
the growing season. He attended grade school at the
Floradel Grade School and High school at
South Cache High in Hyrum, Utah. He married Florence
Williams in the Logan LDS Temple on 9 October, 1942.
He hauled milk and sugar beets until he was drafted
into the United States Army on 23 November, 1942.
Eldon served with the Thirteenth “Black Cat” Armored
Division under Patton’s Third Army in the European
Theater, during the “War to End all Wars”, WWII, as
part of the “GREATEST GENERATION”. Following the war
Eldon joined the ranks of American Telephone &
Telegraph Company, where he was employed as a Cable
Repairmen until his retirement in 1983.
Eldon and
Florence resided in Salt Lake City, Wellsville, and
finally settled in River Heights in 1951. Eldon
served in many voluntary positions, his favorite being
that of the River Heights Lions Club, where he served
for about fifty years. He was elected to the River
Heights City Council in 1968 thru 1972. He was an avid
outdoorsman truly loving hunting, fishing, camping,
boating, and waterskiing. He went hunting well into
his 80’s.
Eldon was a faithful member of the LDS
Church, in which he served many callings to include
working in the Logan LDS Temple and Ward Welfare Farm
Director from 1969 to1984. Eldon loved working with
his hands, building and repairing almost anything, and
loved gardening, a BIG GARDEN. The family will always
remember Eldon as a loving and patient man who carried
life’s burdens without complaint.
Eldon is survived by his wife Florence of 64 years,
two brothers, Blaine Hall, Orem, Ut and Duane Hall,
Wellsville, Ut. Three Children; Gordon Hall (Sharen),
Bountiful, Ut, Katherine Jacobson, North Logan, Debbie
(Brent) Munk, Amalga, Ut. Eight grandchildren, and
thirteen and 8/9th’s great-grandchildren. He was
preceded in death by his parents and four brothers:
Owen, Grant, LaVerl and Darl.
Funeral services will be held Friday, 30 March, 2007,
12:00 PM in the River Heights Stake Center, 800 South
600 East, River Heights. The viewing will be held at
Allen-Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center, Logan, on
Thursday evening, 29 March, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM and
at the River Heights Stake Center, 10:30 to 11:30 AM
on Friday prior to the service. Internment will be at
the Wellsville City Cemetery, 400 North 200 East,
Wellsville, Utah. Condolences may be sent to the
family at Allen Mortuaries.