Extracted from The Monitor (McAllen, TX)
EVELINE PROCK HALL
MISSION -- A memorial service for Eveline P. Hall of Mission will be held at 10:30 a.m. April 8 at First Christian Church Disciples of Christ at 12th St. and Miller in Mission.
Mrs. Hall died March 22 following a stroke in Lewisville where she had been in assisted living since September. She was buried March 24 in graveside services at Oak Grove Memorial Gardens in Irving.
Born Nov. 9, 1918, near Cumby, Texas, the daughter of a sharecropper, Mrs. Hall grew up on a farm in East Texas, completing her elementary education in Cumby.
As a young bride in the mid-1930's, she migrated with her husband, C. J. Prock to Arizona to work in the cotton fields. In 1937 that entire branch of the Prock family moved permanently to Arizona. Blonde and blue-eyed, Mrs. Hall rode with other family members on top of the semi-truck that carried their belongings from East Texas to Eloy, Ariz.
While living in Eloy, she worked as a migrant worker, contracted farm labor, operated a family grocery store, served food in the school cafeteria and drove a school bus while raising a son and daughter. She earned her GED and took a business course in Arizona.
Mrs. Hall moved to Irving, Texas, after a divorce in the mid-1950s. She graduated from beauty school.in Dallas. For several years she operated her own beauty shop in Irving.
In 1969 she and her husband, Cecil H. Moore, moved to McAllen and operated an electronics/sewing machine store while also farming six sections of land in McCook.
After her husband was killed in an auto accident in 1972, she sold the farm land and shop and began investing in real estate in McAllen. She retired in 1999, selling all her rental properties.
She was married to Nathaniel Hall for 18 years, divorcing in 1994.
While in McAllen she was active in her church and served as a volunteer with the Sandy Jo Funk Hospice organization. A member of the McAllen Elks Lodge, she enjoyed helping serve on the food line and seldom missed a dance night.
Her hobbies included quilting, gardening, ceramics, needle point and crocheting. Through the years she had taken dance lessons, including ballroom, round and square, with country western dancing being her favorite. For many years she was active in square dancing in the Rio Grande Valley.
She is survived by a son, Professor Jerry D. Prock and his wife Joyce of McAllen; a daughter, Barbara D. Smith, of Lewisville; two grandsons, Erik Prock of Houston and Mark Smith of Corinth; three granddaughters, Cindi Smith McCready and husband, Dru, of Coppell; Candace Smith Mooney and husband, T.J., of Keller and Leslie Prock Norton and husband Andrew also of Keller; and Wm. M. Smith of Coppell.
Also by six great-grandsons, Miles, Jake, and Max McCready of Coppell; Blake and Chase Smith, of Allen; Ethan Mooney of Keller; and three great-granddaughters, Macy McCready of Coppell; Jaylyn Norton and Evann Mooney, both of Keller.
Mrs. Hall was preceded in death by her parents Gilbert and Iva Barber; and one husband, Cecil H. Moore; a sister, Maude Meeker of California; and a brother, Clifford R. Barber of McAllen.
Memorials gifts may be sent to the Alzheimer?s Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave. Floor 17, Chicago, Ill. Donnelly?s Colonial Funeral Home in Irving handled the arrangements.
Thursday, April 6, 2006