William Alan Hall Jr.

Bill requested there be no visitation or service. Family will be present when Bill’s cremains are inurned in a niche in the Lakeside Columbarium at Mount Moriah Cemetery South, 10507 Holmes Road, Kansas City, Missouri.

Bill was born on October 19, 1950, at Lakeside Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. His parents were William A. Hall and Rosemary Hall.

He was predeceased by his father in 1985 at age 64 and his mother in 2014 at age 90 and one-half. He is survived by his sister Sharon Mitschke and her husband Walter.

Bill was eight years old when the family moved to Leawood, Kansas. He attended Corinth Elementary School, Meadowbrook Junior High School and graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School. After graduation he attended Johnson County Community College for a short time.

Bill moved to Florida for a few years. The last city he lived in there was Fort Walton Beach. He was employed by their local telephone company. Upon returning to Kansas City he worked in two family owned businesses for many years. He worked for Argentine Auto Salvage owned by his father and American Auto Parts, Inc. owned by his sister. After his father’s death Argentine Auto Salvage closed. American Auto Parts was sold a few years later. Bill then worked for NAPA. His last full-time employment was with Examinetics, Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas from December 1999 to October 2015. Examinetics downsized and Bill became semi-retired. He worked for Aerotek a temporary job service which sent him on some long-term assignments.

As a young boy his passion was cars and trucks. As a child every toy he had was either a car or truck. For years his hobby was building model cars and trucks. As a teenager he had an impressive collection of both. His car collection became smaller over the years as his vehicle preferences changed. Currently it consists of only a few manufactured models that appealed to him at one time or another. Bill owned more than 40 cars and trucks during his lifetime.

Bill had a tremendous smile and large flashing brown eyes. He possessed a great sense of humor. He was a protector and tremendously loyal to those he loved and his many close friends. He was fiercely proud to be an American. He was a generous soul with a loving heart and happy to give of himself. He will be greatly missed by his many close friends, his sister who was his best friend and Abby, his much loved Corgi dog. A part of his legacy as with most people is the affect he had on those whose lives he touched throughout his own life.

Bill was intensely private about his illness. He became ill in mid January. An earlier diagnosis may have given him a few more weeks, but the end result would have been unchanged. He was suffering from a very aggressive inoperable tumor in the upper right quadrant of his chest. The tumor was pressing on the superior vena cava artery. This artery is the second largest artery in the human body. It returns blood to the right atrium of the heart from the upper half of the body. Bill quickly became far too weak to begin chemotherapy and radiation. He was under the care of his personal physician, a cardiologist, an oncologist, and a pulmonologist. These types of cancers are treatable, but not curable. He fought the good fight, but finished the race much too soon.

Bill’s suffering is now over. He can rest in peace. His life is complete. He has lived and he has died. That’s the way it is and we have to find peace in it. However, it is unimaginable at this time for those of us who loved him. Our hearts are broken. Godspeed my brother. You will live on in my heart until we meet again.

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