ELEANOR K. HALL
DEXTER, Eleanor K. Hall, 97, died June 15, 2007 following a brief illness at a Dover-Foxcroft nursing home. She was born July 13, 1909, the daughter of Warren S. and Caroline (Kemp) Kane. She graduated from Shead Memorial High School, Farmington Normal School, and received a BS Degree from the University of Maine in 1932 and a Master’s degree from the University of Maine in 1965. She was a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine, and the Stewardship Committee of the Nature Conservancy. She taught grade school in Eastport, Norridgewock, and Garland, and high school in Farmington, Hartland, Dexter and Newport, retiring in 1974. She was predeceased by her husband, Maurice L. Hall, her brother, Warren Kane Jr., and her son, Donald Hall.

She is survived by two sons, Richard M. Hall and his wife, Joanne of Dexter, and Anthony W. Hall of St. Petersburg, FL; a daughter, Virginia C. Wark and her husband, Gerald of Sangerville; sixteen grandchildren; twenty-eight great grandchildren; several great great grandchildren; two special friends, Charlotte Leavitt, and Tessa Clukey both of Dexter.

At her request there will not be a funeral service. Friends are invited to share memories with the family at a graveside service on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, at 1:00 PM, at the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Dexter. In lieu of flowers, those who wish may make donations to the Josselyn Scholarship Fund, c/o Marilyn Mollicone, 49 Westwood Rd., Augusta, ME 04330, or to the charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Crosby & Neal, Dexter. To sign an online guestbook, go to www.CrosbyNeal.com.