US Army Air Corps WW II Veteran
Roland Theodore Hall was the first child born in Trotwood, Ohio to John Alfred and Ada (Coutz) Hall. Attended Trotwood Madison High School where he played guard on the football team that won the All County 1939 Championship. He acquired the nickname "Doc" in high school because he rendered first aid to a classmate.
In May 1941, he graduated and went to work for DP&L in Electric Construction. He met his first and only love, Mary Catherine Schaaf, while buying ice cream at the Velvet Ice Cream Parlor where she was working. They married on October 10, 1942 at Emmanuel Catholic Church in Dayton prior to his entering the Army Air Corp Pilot training program during WWII.
Doc spent a year in training and graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant Pilot in February, 1944. Mary gave birth to their first son, Roger, during this time. Doc departed the states for Port Moresby, New Guinea as a courier, and was then assigned to the 65th Troop Carrier Squadron in New Guinea where he logged 1100 hours in his C-47 flying missions in the South West Pacific area. He gained the rank of First Lieutenant, and was awarded the Air Medal and a Bronze Oak-Leaf Cluster for flight missions between January-February 1945. These operations consisted of flying troops and supplies in unarmed aircraft within a few miles of enemy bases. Doc was discharged in October 1945.
Prior to his discharge, he had the opportunity to become a Commercial airline pilot if he went to Texas for testing. But he declined, citing how much he missed Mary and Roger. He returned home to his job at Dayton Power and Light Co. where he worked for the next 37 years. Doc fathered seven more children: Susan, Michael, Diane, Peggy, Shirley, Jeffrey, and John (stillborn).
Doc loved camping, fishing, playing cards, picnicking, and meeting with friends from Corpus Christi Church where he and Mary attended for many years.
Doc suffered from Parkinsons disease for many years until complications took him at the age of 81 in 2003.
Roland Theodore Hall was the first child born in Trotwood, Ohio to John Alfred and Ada (Coutz) Hall. Attended Trotwood Madison High School where he played guard on the football team that won the All County 1939 Championship. He acquired the nickname "Doc" in high school because he rendered first aid to a classmate.
In May 1941, he graduated and went to work for DP&L in Electric Construction. He met his first and only love, Mary Catherine Schaaf, while buying ice cream at the Velvet Ice Cream Parlor where she was working. They married on October 10, 1942 at Emmanuel Catholic Church in Dayton prior to his entering the Army Air Corp Pilot training program during WWII.
Doc spent a year in training and graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant Pilot in February, 1944. Mary gave birth to their first son, Roger, during this time. Doc departed the states for Port Moresby, New Guinea as a courier, and was then assigned to the 65th Troop Carrier Squadron in New Guinea where he logged 1100 hours in his C-47 flying missions in the South West Pacific area. He gained the rank of First Lieutenant, and was awarded the Air Medal and a Bronze Oak-Leaf Cluster for flight missions between January-February 1945. These operations consisted of flying troops and supplies in unarmed aircraft within a few miles of enemy bases. Doc was discharged in October 1945.
Prior to his discharge, he had the opportunity to become a Commercial airline pilot if he went to Texas for testing. But he declined, citing how much he missed Mary and Roger. He returned home to his job at Dayton Power and Light Co. where he worked for the next 37 years. Doc fathered seven more children: Susan, Michael, Diane, Peggy, Shirley, Jeffrey, and John (stillborn).
Doc loved camping, fishing, playing cards, picnicking, and meeting with friends from Corpus Christi Church where he and Mary attended for many years.
Doc suffered from Parkinsons disease for many years until complications took him at the age of 81 in 2003.
US Army Air Corps WW II Veteran
Roland Theodore Hall was the first child born in Trotwood, Ohio to John Alfred and Ada (Coutz) Hall. Attended Trotwood Madison High School where he played guard on the football team that won the All County 1939 Championship. He acquired the nickname "Doc" in high school because he rendered first aid to a classmate.
In May 1941, he graduated and went to work for DP&L in Electric Construction. He met his first and only love, Mary Catherine Schaaf, while buying ice cream at the Velvet Ice Cream Parlor where she was working. They married on October 10, 1942 at Emmanuel Catholic Church in Dayton prior to his entering the Army Air Corp Pilot training program during WWII.
Doc spent a year in training and graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant Pilot in February, 1944. Mary gave birth to their first son, Roger, during this time. Doc departed the states for Port Moresby, New Guinea as a courier, and was then assigned to the 65th Troop Carrier Squadron in New Guinea where he logged 1100 hours in his C-47 flying missions in the South West Pacific area. He gained the rank of First Lieutenant, and was awarded the Air Medal and a Bronze Oak-Leaf Cluster for flight missions between January-February 1945. These operations consisted of flying troops and supplies in unarmed aircraft within a few miles of enemy bases. Doc was discharged in October 1945.
Prior to his discharge, he had the opportunity to become a Commercial airline pilot if he went to Texas for testing. But he declined, citing how much he missed Mary and Roger. He returned home to his job at Dayton Power and Light Co. where he worked for the next 37 years. Doc fathered seven more children: Susan, Michael, Diane, Peggy, Shirley, Jeffrey, and John (stillborn).
Doc loved camping, fishing, playing cards, picnicking, and meeting with friends from Corpus Christi Church where he and Mary attended for many years.
Doc suffered from Parkinsons disease for many years until complications took him at the age of 81 in 2003.
Roland Theodore Hall was the first child born in Trotwood, Ohio to John Alfred and Ada (Coutz) Hall. Attended Trotwood Madison High School where he played guard on the football team that won the All County 1939 Championship. He acquired the nickname "Doc" in high school because he rendered first aid to a classmate.
In May 1941, he graduated and went to work for DP&L in Electric Construction. He met his first and only love, Mary Catherine Schaaf, while buying ice cream at the Velvet Ice Cream Parlor where she was working. They married on October 10, 1942 at Emmanuel Catholic Church in Dayton prior to his entering the Army Air Corp Pilot training program during WWII.
Doc spent a year in training and graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant Pilot in February, 1944. Mary gave birth to their first son, Roger, during this time. Doc departed the states for Port Moresby, New Guinea as a courier, and was then assigned to the 65th Troop Carrier Squadron in New Guinea where he logged 1100 hours in his C-47 flying missions in the South West Pacific area. He gained the rank of First Lieutenant, and was awarded the Air Medal and a Bronze Oak-Leaf Cluster for flight missions between January-February 1945. These operations consisted of flying troops and supplies in unarmed aircraft within a few miles of enemy bases. Doc was discharged in October 1945.
Prior to his discharge, he had the opportunity to become a Commercial airline pilot if he went to Texas for testing. But he declined, citing how much he missed Mary and Roger. He returned home to his job at Dayton Power and Light Co. where he worked for the next 37 years. Doc fathered seven more children: Susan, Michael, Diane, Peggy, Shirley, Jeffrey, and John (stillborn).
Doc loved camping, fishing, playing cards, picnicking, and meeting with friends from Corpus Christi Church where he and Mary attended for many years.
Doc suffered from Parkinsons disease for many years until complications took him at the age of 81 in 2003.
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