Michael Edward Hall

Michael Edward Hall died peacefully on August 23, 2025 at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Mike was

born July 30,1945 in Hot Springs, Arkansas to Ethel Mae Fortson Hall and Major Hiram Cecil Hall. A lifelong ‘Army Brat’, he graduated from Brown Military Academy in Corona, California, received his BA in History from Virginia Military Institute in Lexington , Virginia, and his Master’s degree in History from The Citadel in Charleston, SC.

After graduating from VMI he was commissioned as an Army 2LT, Armor Branch, and served in Vietnam

from 1968-69. Upon returning to the US he married Anne Lancaster in Richmond, VA on March 29, 1969.

Along his military journey he and Anne had 3 sons. Their birthplaces reflect the diversity of his service. Son Michael was born in Nuremburg, Germany in 1974, Richard was born in 1977 in Charleston, SC and John in 1980 at Ft Leavenworth, Kansas. He served his country for 23 years, retiring from his last post as Professor of Military Science at Florida State University in June,1990.

In 1990 he traded his military career for his 2nd passion, the world of art. He went to work at The Art House in Tallahassee, restoring paintings and framing pictures. In the late 1990s he was contracted to begin restoring a collection of more than 30 Holocaust and Holodomor paintings. These restored paintings are now part of a traveling educational collection with “Two Regimes”, the memoir of Teodora Verbitskaya.

Mike was also a sculptor and master painter of military miniatures. He was a member of several painting groups in the US and England. In 1983 he was named the first Grand Master of the Atlanta Military Figure Society.

In addition to his wife, Anne, Mike is survived by his 3 sons, Michael (partner Amy) and Richard (Laura Beth), both of Tallahassee, and John (Jenni) of Alameda, California. He is also survived by 7 grandchildren, Brynn, Houston, Waring, and Caroline of Tallahassee, Maggie (partner Turner) of Grand Ridge, FL and McKenzie and Grayson of Alameda, CA and 1 great-granddaughter Gradie of Grand Ridge. All of his grandchildren affectionately called him “Colonel”!

A Funeral Service will be held at Fellowship Presbyterian Church on Friday, August 29, 2025 at 12 noon. Burial will follow at Tallahassee National Cemetery at 2:00 pm.