Valencia La Verne Hall

Mother was born in Friendships Community near Altus, Oklahoma on January 22, 1930. There was a winter snow storm howling down from the north which was the Guinness Book of Records at 16 degrees below zero at her birth. Her Father and Uncles got out to cut the fences, while one uncle went to get the doctor, because the snow had covered up the road and fence line. The doctor cut across the pasture to get to the farm and came to the house by horse and buggy. Mom was an 8 pound breech baby.

Mother was preceded in death by her husband, Weldon Durwood Hall; her mother, Edna Julia (Blanscet) Jernigan and father Patrick E. Jernigan; 6 brothers and sisters; her son, Michael Lynn Hall; 2 great grandchildren, and a daughter-in-law, Yvonne Gilbert Hall.

Survivors include 3 sons and 2 daughters, Jimmy Durwood Hall, Dorothy Ann (Hall) Zaeske and husband, Arthur Fredrickson Zaeske, Weldon Wayne Hall and wife, Carol Hall, David Patrick Hall, and Rhonda Sue (Hall) Boldra and husband, Larry Dwight Boldra; a brother, Rodney Edmond Jernigan and wife Sharon; 19 grandchildren; 38 great grandchildren and 17 great- great- grandchildren.

Mother was saved during a revival meeting at the Tabernacle Baptist Church at Roswell, New Mexico at the age of twelve.

Mother loved to read and write. She wrote many poems. The first book she read was “Little Black Sambo” and that was in the second grade.

At age 2 her family moved using a covered wagon that her father had made from an old chassis with rubber tires and was pulled by 6 horses to Roswell, New Mexico. Next move was to Muleshoe, Texas, and then at age 18 they moved to Rogers, Arkansas, where she met her future husband. Two weeks later they were married, then moved to San Antonio and had 62 years of marriage.

Grave side services will be Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 10 AM in Rogers Cemetery at 510 S. 10th Street.

Arrangements are under the care of Rollins Funeral Home. www.RollinsFuneral.com