Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Billie Gearaldean "Jerry" Hall
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 4/24/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cherokee/cherokee.html
Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK
APRIL 16, 2002

JERRY HALL

     Tahlequah-Funeral services for Billie Gearaldean Hall, 78, of Tahlequah 
were held 10 a.m., Monday, April 15, 2002 in the Green Country Funeral Home 
Chapel.  With Pastors Charles Keim and Robert Dewoody officiating.  Interment 
followed in the Tahlequah City Cemetery under the direction of Green Country 
Funeral Home.
     Serving as pallbearers were Bill Dudley, Paul Cook, Derwood Craig, Wayne 
Fisher, Charles Mayberry and Dale Hoffman.  Honorary pallbearers were her 
grandsons, Timothy Kidd, James Kidd, Damon Harder, Treavor Harder, Gregory 
Bohler and Kenneth Blackbird.  
     Born in Tahlequah the daughter of Arthur and Clare Drew Gates on Dec. 11, 
1923, Jerry passed from this life on April 11, 2002, at the home in Tahlequah.  
Jerry was a life-long resident of Tahlequah and she worked as a beautician for 
37 years.
     She loved sewing, crocheting and being a mother.  She was a member of the 
American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Unit 50, and since 1938 she was a member of the 
Baptist faith.
     Jerry was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three brothers, 
Arvel Abury and Stanley Gates; a son; and a grandson, Jarrett Kidd.
     In 1940, Jerry and George Wofford were married and there were four children 
to this union;  A son, George Merideth Wofford, who passed away as an infant; 
and three daughters who survive her; Sue Kidd and husband Jim of  Tahlequah, 
Ruth Jayne Bohler of Florissant, Mo., and George Ann Harder and husband Paul of 
Olathe, Kansas.  Also surviving her are six grandsons; 12 great-grandchildren; 
one greatgreat-granddaughter; a sister, Evelyn Barton of Wichita, Kan.; and many 
nieces, nephews, other relatives, friends and loved ones.