Garnet Eve Hallock

Garnet Eve Hallock, 93, died peacefully at her home in Knoxville, Tennessee, on February 22. Born on June 27, 1928, Garnet grew up in the Shaker Heights area of Cleveland, Ohio. After attending Laurel School, she received her nurse's training at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. One summer in her early twenties, Garnet met her future husband, Robert Hallock Jr., at the Farnsworth School of Art in North Truro, Massachusetts. He was a student; she was a model, and the rest was history. They married in 1950 in Truro, and moved to Larchmont, New York, where they started and ran a manufacturing business and raised their identical twin daughters, Alicia and Marcia. A founding member of the Twins Mothers Club in Westchester County, Garnet claimed that raising twins was her greatest achievement, something she did with humor and even-handedness ("It takes two to tango," was a classic Garnet phrase if the twins would squabble.) Garnet later returned to Hunter College to receive her bachelor of Science in Nursing in the late 1960s, and went on to work as instructor/ coordinator of in-service at New Rochelle Hospital, in New York. She sang in her church choir, loved playing the piano, and enjoyed working as a travel agent, taking many trips with her husband Bob, including going to a dude ranch, sailing on the Sea Cloud to Maine, and taking an exotic trip to Tahiti.

Some of Garnet's favorite memories were of summers on Cape Cod where her parents William and Ruth (Acre) Wenneman and sister, Patricia (Morris) Wells lived. She would often tell stories of being on the Cape during World War II- remembering blackout curtains, ration coupons, and rumors of enemy submarines just offshore.

After the death of her husband, Bob in 1988, Garnet moved to Knoxville to spend more time with her grandchildren, Caden and Katie. She took up volunteering at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. She was the first adult volunteer working in the Emergency Department in the Trauma Center for about 8 years. Then she transferred to the surgical waiting room, helping the families of those in surgery- something she continued until well into her eighties. Garnet enjoyed the fellowship of The Way International, and held Bible meetings in her home. She was a supporter of both the Knoxville Scruffy City Orchestra, which her daughter Alicia helped found, and Marcia's dance career.

In addition to her daughters, Marcia and Alicia and their husbands, Skip Hakala, and Gary Hausmann, Garnet leaves her grandson Caden Kranz and his wife Karina: her granddaughter Katie Crosby and her husband Kenneth and their two children, twins Bowman and Gaines Crosby; along with niece Ann Hallock and nephew Craig Wells.

She will be greatly missed by her family and her many friends and brothers and sisters in Christ. Her family especially thanks Patience, Silvia, Dee, Kevin, Aundrea, Christina, Peggy, Karen and Michael, who cared for Garnet in her final months. A celebration of Garnet's life will be held at a later date.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.berryhighlandmemorial.com for the Hallock family.