Delia Dede Hall
Delia “Dede” Hall passed away on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, at the Community Restorium in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, at 10 a.m. in the Trinity Lutheran Church in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, with interment in the Paradise valley Cemetery.
Delia, better known a “Dede,” was born in an 18 x 24 foot log cabin in the Turtle Mountains north of Dunseith, N.D., to Martin J. and Marie B. (Johnson) Anderson on July 2, 1921.
She grew up milking cows, raking hay, working with her mother, canning hundreds of jars of produce from their garden, picking chokecherries, June Berries, and wild high bush cranberries for sauces , jams and jellies.
Her father died of cancer on March 28, 1928 leaving her mother and two older brothers to run the farm. They ran cattle, and raised hay, and grain.
She married her life-long love Gilbert Hall known to all as “Gib” in Kalispell, Montana on Dec. 7, 1948. Dede worked in the hospital in Kalispell. They moved up the Yaak in 1948 where they lived until 1955. Their two oldest boys needed to go to school so they bought a farm in Paradise Valley, raising their four boys Larry, Jerry, Roland, and Dewey. They lived there the next 52 years.
Dede was active in the Legion Auxiliary, loved to play pinochle and scrabble, she enjoyed sewing and was a fabulous cook and an even better baker.
You could drop by at any time during the day to always find coffee and some of her baked goods. In later years her and her friends Mary Jane Hanson and Doris Howard traveled to the fiddling contest at the International Peace Garden north of Dunseith.
This made her family and friends just a little apprehensive to say the least when those three took off by car to drive 2,000 miles.
Dede was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Lloyd, Ben, sisters Caroline, Olga, and Gladys, son Jerry and husband Gib.
She is survived by sons Larry and wife Shelby, Roland and wife Linda, and Dewey and wife Brenda and four grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be sent to the Friends of the Restorium.
Family and friends are invited to sign Dede’s book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.