Obituaries

Edward Lynwood 'Woody' Hall, 88, of Missouri City, TX, passed peacefully from this life on Thursday, March 19, 2015, at Oyster Creek Manor in Missouri City, with his loving wife, as well as his daughter Linda and her family at his bedside. A family visitation will be held from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 24th, at Dannel Funeral Home in Sherman. Funeral services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 25th, at First United Methodist Church in Tom Bean. Pastor Donny Haywood will officiate. Interment with military honors will follow immediately afterward in White Mound Cemetery. Woody was born April 2, 1926, in Bells, Texas, to Alice Mae Lancaster Hall and Lee Roy Hall. He was the youngest of five, having two older brothers and two sisters. He graduated from Tom Bean High School in 1943 and soon after graduation joined the United States Army. After basic training, he was stationed in Japan, operating a crane during the post-war rebuilding of Japan. After discharge from the army, Ed attended Austin College, in Sherman, Texas, for two years. He then transferred to Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, where he graduated as a Petroleum Geologist in 1952. While at Texas Tech, Ed met Mary Lou Viertel, and they were married on June 6, 1953, in Aspermont, Texas. Ed began his career in the oil fields with the Dowell division of Dow Chemical Company. His duties included mud logging, seismography, and treating oil wells. The last twenty years of his working life were spent with the Texas Railroad Commission, Oil and Gas Division. Retirement was not a slowdown for Ed. He and Mary designed and built a home west of Fort Davis, Texas in the Davis Mountains. They cleared several acres of land of trees and rocks, put in an irrigation system, and planted three hundred apple trees. This kept them going for another twenty years until Alzheimer's took its toll. Ed was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Raymond and Ralph Hall; and sisters Dimple Vaile and Burles Allen. He is survived by his loving wife Mary Lou, of Missouri City, TX; children: James Lee Hall of Ft. Stockton, TX; Deborah Lynn Johnson and husband Dwight, of Colorado Springs, CO; Linda Marie Williams and husband Rickey, of Sugar Land, TX; Leslie Edward Hall and wife Sue, of Andrews, TX; ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Memorial donations are greatly appreciated to the Susan Nall Scholarship Fund (for seminary students), c/o First UMC, 1501 W. 5th St. in Ft. Stockton, Texas (79735); OR to your local Alzheimer's organization; OR to any local church of donor's choice.