Transcription of obituary from Port Angeles Evening News, February 28? 1952

Rosa Magdalene Fend Hall, 80, member of a pioneer Port Angeles family, died in Seattle Thursday. Funeral services are not yet set.

Mrs. Hall died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edgar L. Gale, 412 Queen Anne Ave., while visiting from her home in Oakland, CA, where she had lived since 1920. Her son-in-law is the son of the late Hiram Gale, Seattle's last GAR member.

Born in Fremont, OH, Mrs. Hall came to Port Angeles with her parents in 1887. They were members of the Pugest Sound Cooperative Colony. She married the late Frank L. Hall here in 1890. They moved to Seattle soon afterwards, where Hall, a printer, published the Seattle Daily Call. A hand compositor, he worked on early day newspapers here.

Mrs Hall's parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. George Fend were parents of 12 children, 10 girls and 2 boys. The family moved to Seattle many years ago, where Mr. and Mrs. Fend died.

Her husband was a Seattle pioneer, his parents Judge and Mrs. Isaac M. Hall, having arrived in that city in 1865. The elder Mrs. Hall later came here and was prominent in the affairs of the Colony.

In addition to Mrs. Gale, Mrs. Hall is survived by 2 other daughters, Mrs. Sylvia Garber, Oakland, CA, and Mrs. Madeline Baudonnet, Davis, CA; a son, George Hall, Oakland; 5 sisters, Mrs. Margaret Walters, Mrs. Henrietta Meagher, Mrs. Cecilia Stream, all of Seattle; Mrs. Marcella Mitchell, Puyallup, and Mrs. Frances Webster, of Hawthorne, CA; a brother, Theodore Fend, Seattle; 6 grandchildren; and 3 great-grandchildren.

Submitted by Stacey Davis November 3, 2000