Mary L. Hall, 71, of Wildwood, Hardin County, Texas, died at 11:04 p.m. Friday, March 26, 2010, at Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth in Beaumont, Texas. She had been fighting a serious staphylococcus infection for many months.
Mary was the daughter of Charles Bennett Hampton and Lady Brady Whitworth. Following Charles Hampton’s death, Mary’s mother married Thomas C. Marmon, who subsequently adopted Mary, and her older brother and sister. Mary married William Barriman (Barry) Hauck; they had three children—Kevin Bradley Hauck and two daughters who died in infancy. Following divorce from Barry Hauck and his death, Mary married John F. Hall, Sr., in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1991.
As the adopted daughter of an active duty Army officer, Mary lived in numerous places around the country, as well as in Germany and Japan. She attended a different school virtually every year, and graduated from Mary Seaton High School in Maryland.
Mary was preceded in death by her natural father, Charles Hampton; her adoptive father, Thomas C. Marmon; her mother, Lady B. Marmon; her sister, Patricia A. Sullivan; and Mary’s two infant daughters.
Mary is survived by her husband, John F. Hall, Sr. of Wildwood; son, K. Bradley Hauck and his wife Karen and their three children of Baltimore, Maryland; step-daughters, Catherine Brown and her husband James and their three children Robert, Jessica, and Melissa of Gaithersburg, Maryland and Jennifer Munson and her husband Jeffrey and their two sons, Tyler and Connor of Kensington, Maryland; step-son, John F. Hall, Jr. and his wife Malgosia Babiuch-Hall and their son Jan of Rockville, Maryland; brother, Charles William Marmon and his wife Eileen and their two daughters of Annapolis, Maryland; and her brother-in-law, Albert G. Hall, Jr. and his wife Margaret of Las Vegas, Nevada and his two children of a prior marriage, John R. Hall and his wife Janet of Round Rock, Texas and their two children Erin and Robert, and daughter Ruth Brunelli and her husband Tom of Ashburn, Virginia and their three children, Alex, Matthew, and Adele.
Mary received her Juris Doctor degree from San Joaquin College in California and worked for law firms in Fresno, California and Baltimore, Maryland before serving as litigation manager for a small specialty insurance firm in Pennsylvania and joining her husband John in administration, for twelve years, of the American Wood-Preservers’ Association working from their home in Ellicott City, Maryland and Granbury, Texas prior to retirement in 2003.
Broussard’s Mortuary in Kountze handled Mary’s cremation. Her ashes are to be interred in Maryland in the near future.