Ms. Pearlie B Hall

Pearlie B Hall, affectionately known by family and church family members as “Aunt Pearl,” was born on April 24, 1936, in the Vistula Community, near Lovelady and Crockett, Texas, to parents Robert Jr. and Cambra Hall. She graduated from Center Grove High School and was the valedictorian of her class. Pearl’s college years were spent at Prairie View University, where she started in the commercial cooking vocational education program, then later graduated with her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree. During two of her college summers, Pearl worked at Camp Waldemar in Hunt, Texas, near San Antonio, an experience about which she often reflected and recounted with fond memories.

Pearl accepted Christ and was baptized at an early age at Union Grove Baptist Church in Vistula. She eventually settled in Fort Worth, Texas, near her sister, Mary Lois, and brother-in-law, Leroy Howard. While Pearl was an active member of several churches throughout her life, including Fort Worth churches Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church and St. Mark Cumberland Presbyterian Church, her membership for the last 10 years was with Mayfield Missionary Baptist Church, where she joined on April 5, 2015, and where her oldest nephew, Rev./Dr. Larry Hall, served as pastor. Pearl loved her church family and had faithful attendance in Sunday School and worship service at Mayfield until illness prevented her.

Pearl also loved children and was an ardent supporter of her community, which included a short time as a teacher for the State School for Girls in Crockett, Texas. She went on to teach math for many years in the Dallas and Fort Worth Independent School Districts. She retired as a school counselor from Brownwood Independent School District. Pearl enjoyed volunteering for the Salvation Army and the Edna Gladney home, an organization that helped to support young girls, and she was a board member of Christian Education for the Blind in Fort Worth. She was also a long-time and active member of the Glencrest Civic League, the neighborhood association where she lived for 56 years.

Although Pearl never married, she was remarkably close to her siblings and had a flock of nieces and nephews and grand and great grand nieces and nephews; she often babysat, cared for, and hosted many of them in her home. She loved her family and often spoke proudly of her “11 nieces and nephews” – Larry, Dexter, Wanda, Cynthia, Rickey, Randle, Art, Robert-Teofilo “R-T,” Dwayne, Kim, and Michael, inclusive of their spouses and children and grandchildren.

Pearl was preceded in death by her parents Robert Jr. and Cambra Hall and siblings Robert Turner “R-T or T-Boy” Hall (Narvella) and Mary Lois Howard (Leroy, deceased). She is survived by brother Archie Lee Hall (Clarita) and sister Mattie Inez Traylor (Charles), and a lovingly close family of relatives.