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Show Former Resident Dies in Salinas Funeral services were held In Baldwin Park, California, Monday afternoon, for Mrs. Thelma Blck, Hall, wife of Wilford C. Hall, of Salinas, California. Mrs. Hall died at Salinas the preceding Thursday, o a cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs. Hall will be well remembered remember-ed in Deseret and Delta, where she lived as a child, attending elementary elemen-tary school in Desert, and was graduated from Delta high school in 1925. Her home has been in California Cal-ifornia for a little more than the past twenty years. She was born Oct. 21, 1901, on the old church farm at Abraham, a daughter of Dennis and Maggie I Barney Black. As a child she was stricken with infantile paralysis, ' and could only get about by using 'Crutches. After the family moved to California she underwent an op- ! eration that enabled her to walk with braces. I Despite her physical handicap, Mrs., Hall was always cheerful and enjoyed a wide circle of friends. During the years since she left here she had maintained friendship by jher interesting letters, and cor- responded with friends all over the country. She had taken a business busi-ness course in- high school, later completed at Henager's, in Salt Lake City, and did some secretarial work in California for a writer. She wrote poetry herself, some serious and some humorous." She was married about 17 years ago to Mr. Hall, who survives her. They lived for a time at Yuma, Ari- , zona, and then returned to California. Calif-ornia. Also surviving her are her mother, Mrs. Maggie B. Black, residing re-siding at 156 Balm Ave., Baldwin Park, California, and several sisters and brothers. I |