Iva Lois (Hammond) Hall September 17, 1920 -  January 12, 2011 by Ray Houston
Lois Hall Photo by Ray Houston		Hemerocallis 'Lois Hall' (Inez Tarrant, 1987)

Lois Hall was born in Midfield, Matagorda County, Texas, September 17, 1920, to Allison Lemuel and Pearl Hammond. She was the second of six children. Lois graduated from Blessing High School in 1938, at which time she moved to Houston, Texas. She attended Massy Business School before going to work as a secretary for Gally King Bag Company. Lois lived on the corner of Westheimer and Montrose at a boarding house across the street from the old Tower Theater. Long before there was a baseball park called Minute Maid Park in Houston, there was a passenger railway station for the Missouri Pacific Railway at that location. Lois would catch the train from this station to the depot by her parents' house in what was then known as Snipe, Texas, three miles southwest of Angleton, Texas.

Lois took flying lessons financed by her older brother, Bill, and made history as the first solo female pilot in Brazoria County. This must have impressed a young soldier she met a USO dance in Houston in 1942, named Donald Earl Hall, who was stationed at Ellington Army Air Force Base south of Houston during World War II. They dated three times before Don asked for her hand in marriage, and the couple married on June 21, 1942, at the Lutheran Church on Waugh Drive in Houston. They were married for 38 years until Don's death just before Christmas in 1980.

Lois was the mother of four boys: Al, Wes, Charlie, & Craig. She was a Cub Scout Den Mother and encouraged all of her sons to participate in the Scouting program. She and Don recognized the value of higher education and encouraged their sons to attend college - all four have college degrees. She placed a high value on her family and had a close relationship with her mother and siblings, her sons, their families, her grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

Lois retired from Bemis Company, Inc. in 1985, but soon after began a new career caring for children of several people in Houston who treated her as a member of their own family.

Lois loved flowers and was very active in the Brazosport Daylily Society & the Houston Amaryllis Society. In 1987, Inez Tarrant registered the daylily Hemerocallis 'Lois Hall', in honor of Lois. This was a very popular and much sought-after daylily in Region 6 for many years. She was President of the Brazosport Daylily Society in 2003-04. She served as 1st Vice President of the club in 2008. Lois put much effort into making the flower show plant sales a success each year.

Lois passed away on January 12, 2011, in Houston, Texas, at age 90, and was buried in the Midfield Cemetery, Matagorda County, Texas, next to her husband, Donald, and her parents.

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