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- The State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
December 13, 2001
MULBERRY GROVE - Fred L. Hall, 80, of Mulberry Grove, formerly of Springfield, died Monday, Dec. 10, 2001, at St. John's Hospital.
He was born May 4, 1921, in Rockford, the son of William H. and Maude Elizabeth Herring Hall. He married Shirley V. Peters in 1944 in New Haven, Conn.
Mr. Hall attended one room country schools and Frank L. Smart High School in Davenport, Iowa. He owned and operated a heating business in Bettendorf, Iowa, and was heating engineer and salesman for Booth and Thomas Inc. in Springfield from 1956-86. During that time, he was manager of the Vandalia branch for a time, retiring in 1986.
He was a member of Greenville Free Methodist Church since 1974, a member of American Society of Heating and Cooling Engineers, charter member of OKAW Valley Amateur Radio Club, Flying Boat Amateur Radio Society, serving as net control from 1998-2000. He spent 35 years in Scouting, serving as a Scout master. He was in Order of Arrow. He also was a former Bond County Republican precinct committeeman.
Survivors: wife, Shirley; three sons, William Lewis Hall of Long Island, N.Y., Nicholas P. Hall of Oregon, Wis., and Mike David Hall of Gig Harbor, Wash.; two sisters, Dorothy A. Armstrong of Aledo and Ruth H. Bracking of Poway, Calif.; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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