Betty Grace Hall

Betty Grace Hall

1929-2026

Betty Grace Hall, beloved daughter, sister, aunt and friend, died March 27, 2026, in Herriman, Utah, one week shy of her 97th birthday.

She was born, April 3, 1929, in Mammoth, Utah, to Joseph Franklin Hall and Tolla Rebecca Nielsen Hall, in a home about which Tolla once wrote "was pretty nice and quite comfortable, until winter came and we would have to thaw the water pipes every morning." Nevertheless, it proved very convenient, as it was located just a few houses away from Betty's maternal grandparents and Tolla would later say that as a baby and toddler, Betty was "a busybody," always getting into things and speaking in full sentences when Janice was born 16 months after Betty.

Betty was the oldest of four sisters, followed by Janice (Thayne), Frankie (Truscott) and Carolyn (Baggett). She later also helped watch over Joel Farley, a nephew. After Mammoth, the family also lived in Pioche, NV., Payson, UT, and then for years in her beloved Cannon 3rd Ward area of Salt Lake City.

She later made additional cherished friends in Taylorsville, where she lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Janice and Donald Thayne, for many years. Additionally, she made many friends in Herriman, where she lived with a niece, Melanie Child, and grandniece Samantha and Matt Stockebrand and their family, Jayden and Trinadee. They sacrificed much and dedicated innumerable hours to her care, comfort and joy in her later years.

Betty served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil, from March 1954 to Nov. 1956. Disenchanted with even escalators and gondolas, she preferred NOT to fly home after her mission and was somehow able to wait to travel by ship instead. Her missionary assignments in Brazil included areas throughout that vast nation and she said upon her arrival she became only the 45th missionary in the entire country at the time. That group of missionaries became close-knit friends and kept up with each other throughout their lives. The last that Betty knew, she was one of two who had not yet passed on.

She was always active in Church callings, including serving as Gospel Doctrine teacher, and, in her much later years, as the Primary president.

Long before online databanks and other resources were dreamed of, Betty maintained and updated her own personal library of pictures, flannel-board stories and Church magazine archives.

She was employed for many years as a phone operator, working at both Holy Cross and LDS hospitals in Salt Lake City.

She delighted in shopping, scrapbooking, shopping, traveling with family, coloring, continually nourishing relationships with extended family and friends and shopping.

She dearly loved both her immediate and extended family of cousins, aunts and uncles and felt a special, profound bond to her many nieces and nephews and with their children. She will be greatly missed but overjoyed at the reunions to come.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her sisters and brothers-in-law, her nephew, Joel, and by nieces Barbara Baggett and Cherie Truscott Gunn.

Funeral services will begin at noon, Monday, April 6, 2026, at McDougal Funeral Home, 4330 S. Redwood Road, Taylorsville, Utah, with a viewing preceding at 11 a.m. Interment: Valley View Memorial Park, West Valley City, Utah.