Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, Dec. 17, 1945, Monday, pp. 1 & 6:
Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness
Pike Hall, 49, local attorney and one of Shreveport's most prominent citizens, died at 4 a.m. Sunday at a local sanitarium. Mr. Hall suffered a cerebral stroke Thursday afternoon at his office.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at First Methodist Church with Dr. Dana Dawson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery. Mr. Hall lived at 424 Evangeline Street.
Mr. Hall had long been prominent in legal and civic affairs. He was a past president of the Louisiana Bar Association, past commander of Lowe-McFarlane American Legion Post [14] here, president of the Atlas Oil and Refining Corporation from 1942 to 1944 and past department judge advocate of the American Legion department of Louisiana.
Born in Mansfield on Oct. 19, 1896, Mr. Hall was the son of the late Judge W. P. Hall and Mrs. Ida Jack Hall. His father was a state district judge from De Soto and Red River Parishes and his mother was a sister of the late Federal Judge Whitfield Jack of Shreveport.
He moved to Shreveport in 1900 and lived here thereafter. Mr. Hall was educated in the public schools of Shreveport, Centenary College, the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and attended the college of law at Tulane University and the Columbia law school of Columbia University in New York City. He received his LL.B. degree and was admitted to the bar in 1922.
On July 20, 1925, he was married to the former Miss Hazel Tucker, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Tucker of Haughton.
Mr. Hall was a private with the U.S. Army ambulance corps in France in 1917 and 1918. He served as a captain in the judge advocate general's department, reserve corps, and was discharged in 1943 for physical disability.
Mr. Hall also was a past grand avocat, Forty and Eight, American Legion; a past judge advocate, Veterans of Foreign Wars, department of Louisiana and Mississippi; a member of the Shrine and 32nd degree Mason; a former director of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the advisory board, local selective service board No. 3; a member of the executive committee of the Louisiana Civil Service League; a director of the United Community organization; a member of the Shreveport Country Club and a non-resident member of The Boston Club of New Orleans.
Mr. Hall was a member of the state senate, representing Caddo and De Soto Parishes, from 1924 to 1932. He was a member of the law firm of Foster, Hall and Smith, a member of the First Methodist Church.
Mr. Hall was chairman of the committee appointed by the supreme court of Louisiana to draft the charter for the integrated bar of Louisiana and to prepare the rules of conduct governing the members of the organized bar of Louisiana. He was a past president of the old voluntary state bar association and first president of the integrated state bar association.
His numerous other legal associations included: advisory editor of the Tulane law review; chairman of the section of mineral laws of the state bar association in 1944; a member of the Louisiana Law Institute; a member of the American Bar Association; state delegate, house of delegates, American Bar Association for 1944 to 1947; vice-chairman of the section of mineral law, American Bar Association; member of the council of the section of international and comparative law, American Bar Association; director of the American Judicature Society, member of the American Law Institute and acting chairman of the Louisiana Revenue Code Commission.
Mr. Hall's fraternal associations were with Kappa Alpha and the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi.
Survivors are: his widow; one daughter, Hazel, 16, a student at All Saints College at Vicksburg, Miss.; one son, Pike Hall, Jr., age 14, a junior at Byrd High School; one sister, Mrs. M. C. Trichel of Shreveport; five nephews, Milton Trichel, serving in the Navy, Pike Hall Trichel, serving in the Army; Ed and Clifford Neilson of Shreveport, James Neilson of New York City; one niece, Mrs. Lloyd Bouldin of Mineral Wells, Texas.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Osborn Funeral Home. Active pallbearers are: W. Harry Johnson, William M. Barret, Vernon Mayer, Edmund Conger, Floyd R. Hodges, Ray O'Brien, G. Arch Frierson, Marion K. Smith, Edwin L. Blewer, Burford McGuffin, H. S. Bogan and Wilburn Lunn.
Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness
Pike Hall, 49, local attorney and one of Shreveport's most prominent citizens, died at 4 a.m. Sunday at a local sanitarium. Mr. Hall suffered a cerebral stroke Thursday afternoon at his office.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at First Methodist Church with Dr. Dana Dawson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery. Mr. Hall lived at 424 Evangeline Street.
Mr. Hall had long been prominent in legal and civic affairs. He was a past president of the Louisiana Bar Association, past commander of Lowe-McFarlane American Legion Post [14] here, president of the Atlas Oil and Refining Corporation from 1942 to 1944 and past department judge advocate of the American Legion department of Louisiana.
Born in Mansfield on Oct. 19, 1896, Mr. Hall was the son of the late Judge W. P. Hall and Mrs. Ida Jack Hall. His father was a state district judge from De Soto and Red River Parishes and his mother was a sister of the late Federal Judge Whitfield Jack of Shreveport.
He moved to Shreveport in 1900 and lived here thereafter. Mr. Hall was educated in the public schools of Shreveport, Centenary College, the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and attended the college of law at Tulane University and the Columbia law school of Columbia University in New York City. He received his LL.B. degree and was admitted to the bar in 1922.
On July 20, 1925, he was married to the former Miss Hazel Tucker, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Tucker of Haughton.
Mr. Hall was a private with the U.S. Army ambulance corps in France in 1917 and 1918. He served as a captain in the judge advocate general's department, reserve corps, and was discharged in 1943 for physical disability.
Mr. Hall also was a past grand avocat, Forty and Eight, American Legion; a past judge advocate, Veterans of Foreign Wars, department of Louisiana and Mississippi; a member of the Shrine and 32nd degree Mason; a former director of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the advisory board, local selective service board No. 3; a member of the executive committee of the Louisiana Civil Service League; a director of the United Community organization; a member of the Shreveport Country Club and a non-resident member of The Boston Club of New Orleans.
Mr. Hall was a member of the state senate, representing Caddo and De Soto Parishes, from 1924 to 1932. He was a member of the law firm of Foster, Hall and Smith, a member of the First Methodist Church.
Mr. Hall was chairman of the committee appointed by the supreme court of Louisiana to draft the charter for the integrated bar of Louisiana and to prepare the rules of conduct governing the members of the organized bar of Louisiana. He was a past president of the old voluntary state bar association and first president of the integrated state bar association.
His numerous other legal associations included: advisory editor of the Tulane law review; chairman of the section of mineral laws of the state bar association in 1944; a member of the Louisiana Law Institute; a member of the American Bar Association; state delegate, house of delegates, American Bar Association for 1944 to 1947; vice-chairman of the section of mineral law, American Bar Association; member of the council of the section of international and comparative law, American Bar Association; director of the American Judicature Society, member of the American Law Institute and acting chairman of the Louisiana Revenue Code Commission.
Mr. Hall's fraternal associations were with Kappa Alpha and the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi.
Survivors are: his widow; one daughter, Hazel, 16, a student at All Saints College at Vicksburg, Miss.; one son, Pike Hall, Jr., age 14, a junior at Byrd High School; one sister, Mrs. M. C. Trichel of Shreveport; five nephews, Milton Trichel, serving in the Navy, Pike Hall Trichel, serving in the Army; Ed and Clifford Neilson of Shreveport, James Neilson of New York City; one niece, Mrs. Lloyd Bouldin of Mineral Wells, Texas.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Osborn Funeral Home. Active pallbearers are: W. Harry Johnson, William M. Barret, Vernon Mayer, Edmund Conger, Floyd R. Hodges, Ray O'Brien, G. Arch Frierson, Marion K. Smith, Edwin L. Blewer, Burford McGuffin, H. S. Bogan and Wilburn Lunn.
Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, Dec. 17, 1945, Monday, pp. 1 & 6:
Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness
Pike Hall, 49, local attorney and one of Shreveport's most prominent citizens, died at 4 a.m. Sunday at a local sanitarium. Mr. Hall suffered a cerebral stroke Thursday afternoon at his office.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at First Methodist Church with Dr. Dana Dawson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery. Mr. Hall lived at 424 Evangeline Street.
Mr. Hall had long been prominent in legal and civic affairs. He was a past president of the Louisiana Bar Association, past commander of Lowe-McFarlane American Legion Post [14] here, president of the Atlas Oil and Refining Corporation from 1942 to 1944 and past department judge advocate of the American Legion department of Louisiana.
Born in Mansfield on Oct. 19, 1896, Mr. Hall was the son of the late Judge W. P. Hall and Mrs. Ida Jack Hall. His father was a state district judge from De Soto and Red River Parishes and his mother was a sister of the late Federal Judge Whitfield Jack of Shreveport.
He moved to Shreveport in 1900 and lived here thereafter. Mr. Hall was educated in the public schools of Shreveport, Centenary College, the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and attended the college of law at Tulane University and the Columbia law school of Columbia University in New York City. He received his LL.B. degree and was admitted to the bar in 1922.
On July 20, 1925, he was married to the former Miss Hazel Tucker, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Tucker of Haughton.
Mr. Hall was a private with the U.S. Army ambulance corps in France in 1917 and 1918. He served as a captain in the judge advocate general's department, reserve corps, and was discharged in 1943 for physical disability.
Mr. Hall also was a past grand avocat, Forty and Eight, American Legion; a past judge advocate, Veterans of Foreign Wars, department of Louisiana and Mississippi; a member of the Shrine and 32nd degree Mason; a former director of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the advisory board, local selective service board No. 3; a member of the executive committee of the Louisiana Civil Service League; a director of the United Community organization; a member of the Shreveport Country Club and a non-resident member of The Boston Club of New Orleans.
Mr. Hall was a member of the state senate, representing Caddo and De Soto Parishes, from 1924 to 1932. He was a member of the law firm of Foster, Hall and Smith, a member of the First Methodist Church.
Mr. Hall was chairman of the committee appointed by the supreme court of Louisiana to draft the charter for the integrated bar of Louisiana and to prepare the rules of conduct governing the members of the organized bar of Louisiana. He was a past president of the old voluntary state bar association and first president of the integrated state bar association.
His numerous other legal associations included: advisory editor of the Tulane law review; chairman of the section of mineral laws of the state bar association in 1944; a member of the Louisiana Law Institute; a member of the American Bar Association; state delegate, house of delegates, American Bar Association for 1944 to 1947; vice-chairman of the section of mineral law, American Bar Association; member of the council of the section of international and comparative law, American Bar Association; director of the American Judicature Society, member of the American Law Institute and acting chairman of the Louisiana Revenue Code Commission.
Mr. Hall's fraternal associations were with Kappa Alpha and the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi.
Survivors are: his widow; one daughter, Hazel, 16, a student at All Saints College at Vicksburg, Miss.; one son, Pike Hall, Jr., age 14, a junior at Byrd High School; one sister, Mrs. M. C. Trichel of Shreveport; five nephews, Milton Trichel, serving in the Navy, Pike Hall Trichel, serving in the Army; Ed and Clifford Neilson of Shreveport, James Neilson of New York City; one niece, Mrs. Lloyd Bouldin of Mineral Wells, Texas.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Osborn Funeral Home. Active pallbearers are: W. Harry Johnson, William M. Barret, Vernon Mayer, Edmund Conger, Floyd R. Hodges, Ray O'Brien, G. Arch Frierson, Marion K. Smith, Edwin L. Blewer, Burford McGuffin, H. S. Bogan and Wilburn Lunn.
Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness
Pike Hall, 49, local attorney and one of Shreveport's most prominent citizens, died at 4 a.m. Sunday at a local sanitarium. Mr. Hall suffered a cerebral stroke Thursday afternoon at his office.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at First Methodist Church with Dr. Dana Dawson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery. Mr. Hall lived at 424 Evangeline Street.
Mr. Hall had long been prominent in legal and civic affairs. He was a past president of the Louisiana Bar Association, past commander of Lowe-McFarlane American Legion Post [14] here, president of the Atlas Oil and Refining Corporation from 1942 to 1944 and past department judge advocate of the American Legion department of Louisiana.
Born in Mansfield on Oct. 19, 1896, Mr. Hall was the son of the late Judge W. P. Hall and Mrs. Ida Jack Hall. His father was a state district judge from De Soto and Red River Parishes and his mother was a sister of the late Federal Judge Whitfield Jack of Shreveport.
He moved to Shreveport in 1900 and lived here thereafter. Mr. Hall was educated in the public schools of Shreveport, Centenary College, the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and attended the college of law at Tulane University and the Columbia law school of Columbia University in New York City. He received his LL.B. degree and was admitted to the bar in 1922.
On July 20, 1925, he was married to the former Miss Hazel Tucker, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Tucker of Haughton.
Mr. Hall was a private with the U.S. Army ambulance corps in France in 1917 and 1918. He served as a captain in the judge advocate general's department, reserve corps, and was discharged in 1943 for physical disability.
Mr. Hall also was a past grand avocat, Forty and Eight, American Legion; a past judge advocate, Veterans of Foreign Wars, department of Louisiana and Mississippi; a member of the Shrine and 32nd degree Mason; a former director of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the advisory board, local selective service board No. 3; a member of the executive committee of the Louisiana Civil Service League; a director of the United Community organization; a member of the Shreveport Country Club and a non-resident member of The Boston Club of New Orleans.
Mr. Hall was a member of the state senate, representing Caddo and De Soto Parishes, from 1924 to 1932. He was a member of the law firm of Foster, Hall and Smith, a member of the First Methodist Church.
Mr. Hall was chairman of the committee appointed by the supreme court of Louisiana to draft the charter for the integrated bar of Louisiana and to prepare the rules of conduct governing the members of the organized bar of Louisiana. He was a past president of the old voluntary state bar association and first president of the integrated state bar association.
His numerous other legal associations included: advisory editor of the Tulane law review; chairman of the section of mineral laws of the state bar association in 1944; a member of the Louisiana Law Institute; a member of the American Bar Association; state delegate, house of delegates, American Bar Association for 1944 to 1947; vice-chairman of the section of mineral law, American Bar Association; member of the council of the section of international and comparative law, American Bar Association; director of the American Judicature Society, member of the American Law Institute and acting chairman of the Louisiana Revenue Code Commission.
Mr. Hall's fraternal associations were with Kappa Alpha and the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi.
Survivors are: his widow; one daughter, Hazel, 16, a student at All Saints College at Vicksburg, Miss.; one son, Pike Hall, Jr., age 14, a junior at Byrd High School; one sister, Mrs. M. C. Trichel of Shreveport; five nephews, Milton Trichel, serving in the Navy, Pike Hall Trichel, serving in the Army; Ed and Clifford Neilson of Shreveport, James Neilson of New York City; one niece, Mrs. Lloyd Bouldin of Mineral Wells, Texas.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Osborn Funeral Home. Active pallbearers are: W. Harry Johnson, William M. Barret, Vernon Mayer, Edmund Conger, Floyd R. Hodges, Ray O'Brien, G. Arch Frierson, Marion K. Smith, Edwin L. Blewer, Burford McGuffin, H. S. Bogan and Wilburn Lunn.
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WM PIKE HALL JR.
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OCT. 19 1896-DEC. 16 1945
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