Other Events:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 83766623
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Yarmouth - DNA Family 020
• Obituary: 28 Jan 1971; Gloucester-Mathews Gazette Journal,

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FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83766623

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall of Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Obituary:
John Howe Hall, Jr., 52, died on Thursday, Jan. 21, 1971, in MacDonald Army Hospital, Ft. Eustis, following a long illness.

A native of New York City, Mr. Hall had resided at Ordinary since 1966. He was retired after 17 years service with the United States Army. He was the great-grandson of Dr. Samuel O. Howe, who organized the New England Asylum for the Blind (now Perkins Institute and Massachusetts School for the Blind) and Julia Ward Howe, who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Grace M. Hall; four step-sons, Robert G. Riddett, Gary A. Riddett, Clifford L. Riddett and Kenneth P. Riddett, all of Ordinary; a brother, David P. Hall of Oxford, N. J.; and three sisters, Mrs. George W. McRory, Jr., of Ashton, Md., Mrs. Henri A. Fluchere of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., and Mrs. James T. Kerr of Pleasantville, N. Y.

A military funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of the Hogg Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. William J. Corey, Jr., pastor of Providence Baptist Church, Ordinary.

Burial with full military honors was in Rosewell Memorial Garden, Ordinaty.