ARVA JENSEN HALL

Arva Jensen Hall, 80, passed away Friday, February 25, 2005, at the Oneida County Hospital in Malad.

She was born on December 15, 1924, at Malad, weighing only three pounds. She was not expected to live. Her parents were Verner Alva and Gwen Wickham Jensen.

She was raised and educated in Ridgedale, Idaho. She graduated from Malad High School and LDS Seminary. After her marriage she lived in San Francisco, California for two years then returned to Malad where she has since resided.

She married Alden Lyle Hall January 7, 1944. She was a member of the Malad Sixth Ward. She was a wonderful compassionate service leader; she served in the Relief Society presidency, Primary, Sunday School and Young Women’s. She was always giving to others. No one ever went away empty handed from her home.

Arva served an LDS mission in the Texas Houston Mission from 1989 to 1990. She had clerked at grocery stores in Malad and cooked for several years at the “Chat & Chew Café” and Tommy’s Lunch.

During WWII, she worked at the Ration Board. People were always important to her. She had many friends and loved ones to go for car rides and to the drive in.

She crocheted afghans for all her children and grandchildren; afghans and hangers for friends and for the Senior Citizens’ center and hospital. She loved textile painting and tube painting. She was an excellent seamstress and made hundreds of quilts, dishtowels and pillowcases.

Arva is survived by her husband of Malad, Idaho, one son and two daughters: Alan Lyle and Loretta Hall, Rigby, Idaho; Gloria Lois Burton, and Lyla Gwen Steed, both of Roy, Utah. Also surviving are nine grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents a brother, Nolan, and a sister, Lois.

Funeral services were held Wednesday March 2, 2005 in the Malad LDS 6th Ward.