Thursday, March 18, 2010

BILL HARRALL


I received this from Duane Cronn . . . .

Bill Harrall was married to my oldest sister, Leota.
They lived in the Paradise area prior to her death in 1955.

Bill will be buried at the Mount Herman Cemetery at
Paradise.



Bill Harrall
(January 30, 1926 - March 16, 2010)

Bill Harrall, age 84 of Austin, Texas formally of Sand Springs, went to his heavenly home on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Austin, Texas.

Bill was born on January 30, 1926 in Drumright, Oklahoma to Pernell and Jessie (Bryant) Harrall. He graduated from Claflin High School and attended three years at the Kansas City Art Institute.

He served in the United States Army during World War II. He married Leota (Cronn) Harrall in 1946, she passed away on September 1955. Bill then married Shirley Johanson on July 25, 1958 in New York, she also passed away in 2006. Bill retired from North American Rockwell/Boeing as a Commercial Artist with over twenty-six years. Bill was a long time member of the Harrison Memorial United Methodist Church in Tulsa where he served as Secretary Treasurer for over thirty-five years and an active member of Gideon’s International.

Bill is survived by two daughters Vicki Ford and Ginni Harrall of Austin Texas, a son Billy “Mike” Harrall and wife Vera of Park Hill, Oklahoma, a sister Patricia Conant and husband Roger of California and a son-in-law Richard Dickson of Hurst, Texas; also surviving are seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents Pernell and Jessie Harrall, first wife Leota Cronn Harrall, second wife Shirley Johanson Harrall, a daughter Bobbi Marie Dickson and three brothers Roger, James and Preston Harrall.

Funeral service will be held on Friday, 10:00 a.m., March 19, 2010 at the Harrison Memorial United Methodist Church, 15th S. 65th W. Ave, Tulsa with Rev. Dee Willis officiating. Burial will be held on Saturday, 11:00 a.m., at Mount Herman Cemetery in Paradise, Kansas with military honors provided by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars in Paradise, Kansas.

In lieu of flowers the family ask donations be made to Gideon’s International at P.O. Box 140800 Nashville, TN 37214 or online at http://www.gideons.org/

Online memorials may be left for the family at
Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service of Sand Springs.

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