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Visitation:
5-7 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at Lincoln
Christian Church
Second visitation: 10 a.m.
until 11 a.m. Thursday also at the church.
Service:
11 a.m. Thursday at the church
Funeral home: Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral
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Obituary
Dr. Gary Harlan Hall, PhD, passed
from this life and went to be with the Lord on
Saturday, June 15, 2019, at 12:10 p.m. at home with
his family beside him.
Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, June 19,
2019 at Lincoln Christian Church and from 10 a.m.
until 11 a.m. Thursday also at the church. Funeral
services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, June 20, 2019 at
Lincoln Christian Church. Burial will be at 11a.m.
Friday, June 21, 2019 at Marshall Cemetery,
Marshall.
Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral Home is assisting
the family.
He was born on January 7, 1941 in Mason City, Iowa,
the son of Glea Harold and Mavis Ouverson Hall. He
married Cheryl Thompson on July 22, 1967 in
Marshall.
He was preceded in death by his parents and by one
brother, Eugene Hall.
Surviving him are his wife, Cheryl Hall of Lincoln;
his daughter, Stephanie Hall also of Lincoln; his
son, Nathan (wife, Megan) Hall of Portland, Maine;
his granddaughter, Catherine; and one brother, Brian
(wife, Coralene) Hall of Clear Lake, Iowa. He is
also survived by one sister-in-law, Theda McMinn,
and many nieces and nephews.
He was a graduate of Milligan College in Tennessee
(B.A. in Religion), Lincoln Christian Seminary
(M.Div. in Old Testament), Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary (Th.M. in New Testament) and
Union Theological Seminary (now Presbyterian
Theological Seminary) in Richmond, Virginia where
his earned his PhD in Old Testament.
Dr. Hall was a scholar and a
professor of Old Testament. He taught Old Testament
and Bible Doctrine at Kentucky Christian University
in Grayson, KY from 1972 until 1986. The last five
years at KCU he also served as Academic Dean where
he started their Teacher Education program and
successfully initiated and achieved accreditation
for the college. In 1986 he was called to Lincoln
Christian Seminary in Lincoln, as Professor of Old
Testament and Hebrew until his retirement in 2012.
Upon retirement he was awarded the title of
Professor Emeritus at LCU. Dr. Hall taught an
estimated 4,000 students over his 40-year career in
higher education. His students serve as ministers,
scholars, professors, teachers, church workers, and
missionaries all over the country and the world. |
He was a lifelong servant of the Lord serving at various times as
a youth minister, preaching minister, deacon, youth sponsor, small group leader,
Bible study teacher (over 40 years), and elder (almost 30 years). He was a
member of Lincoln Christian Church and most recently served there as an elder
and Adult Sunday School teacher. He received the Restoration Award for Christian
Higher Education from LCU in 2012 and the Stone-Campbell Journal Lifetime
Achievement Award in April of 2019.
He wrote many scholarly articles and chapters for publication as well as
teaching material. He wrote a commentary on the book of Deuteronomy published by
College Press in 2000. He is the author of a forthcoming commentary on Jeremiah
and Lamentations.
He was an avid traveler. He was proud to have visited all 50 states. He visited
31 countries around the world including leading two study tours to Israel in
1995 and in 2004. He was also a voracious reader. Upon retirement, he donated
his extensive personal library of theological books and Bible commentaries to
Lagos Christian College in Lagos, Nigeria. It remains the only library available
in that city. He was also an avid gardener for decades, planting organic
vegetable gardens in every place that he lived.
Dr. Hall loved God, his family, and the church. He was a man of wisdom,
humility, and integrity who will be greatly missed by his family, church, and
community. He has left behind a legacy that will far outlive him.
Memorials may be made to the Dr. Gary Hall Endowment for Old Testament Studies
at Lincoln Christian University, Lincoln.
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