WILSON-LITTLE FUNERAL

PURCELL-NEWCASTLE, MCCLAIN CO, OK

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Mary Ellen Hall age 94 of Purcell, passed away Friday, November 14, 2014 at Purcell Municipal Hospital. She was born December 20, 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was the 4th child of 13 children born to Harley Odis McLaughlin and Nettie Margaret (Beasley) McLaughlin. Mary grew up living in various towns across Oklahoma because of her father’s working in the oil field. In 1937, while living in Drumright, OK she attended and graduated from Drumright High School. She later attended one semester of college at Oklahoma State University where she met her husband to be. On April 27, 1940 she married Dempsey H. Hall in Manford, OK. Years later in 1954 they moved to Purcell and Dempsey took a job with the Oklahoma Health Dept. Mary Ellen worked as a homemaker, wife and mother, raising four sons. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, cooking, collecting dolls, feeding her hummingbirds and traveling with husband, Dempsey. She was a member of the Rose Violet Garden Club in Purcell and had served as president of the club. She was a faithful member of the Heartland Baptist Church in Purcell and in her younger years, she had taught Sunday school and Girls In Action. She will be remembered as a wonderful mother and grandmother. She was a special sister and a dear friends to all who knew her.

She was preceded in death by: Parents, Harley and Nettie McLaughlin; Husband, Dempsey Hall Sr.; Son, Dempsey Hall Jr.; 8 brothers and sisters, Cathrine, Joe, Lee, Elvira, Cecil, Betty, Billy and Charles;

She is survived by: Three sons, Warren Hall and wife Clara of OKC, Garland Hall and wife Diane of Purcell, Chris Hall and wife Kelley of Purcell; One daughter-in-law, Merylee Hall of Canada; Two sisters, Irene Majors and Nora Johnson both of Tulsa; Two brothers, Claude McLaughlin of Drumright, Odis McLaughlin of Cushing; Five grandchildren, Janet Jones and husband Rick of Purcell, Melinda Taylor of Norman, Dwaine Hall and wife Kristy of Muskogee, Aletha Ticer and husband Jeff of OKC, Daniel Hall and wife Anissa of West Point, NY; 10 great grandchildren, one great-great grandson and one on the way. Also many nieces, nephews, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M. Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 at Wilson-Little Funeral Home Chapel in Purcell. Interment will be at Hillside Cemetery in Purcell.