Dr Bill Hall

Dr. William Marvin "Bill" Hall, II, 60, Doctor of Psychiatry and resident of Graymere Manor Road, died Sunday, December 7, 2003, at Maury Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 P.M. Tuesday at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Rev. Bill Williamson officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery with military honors provided by Herbert Griffin American Legion Post 19. The family will visit with friends Tuesday after 12:00 noon at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Diabetes Education Program at Maury Regional Hospital, 1224 Trotwood Avenue, Columbia, TN 38401 or National Kidney Foundation of Middle Tennessee, 2120 Crestmoor Road, Nashville, TN 37215. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Shelby County native was the son of the late William Marvin Hall and Ruby Redwine Hall. He served as Captain in the U. S. Air Force with forty-five B-52 aerial combat missions in Vietnam and was awarded two Air Medals by the government of the United States of America and the Gallantry Cross with Palm Leaf Cluster by the government of Republic of South Vietnam. Dr. Hall received a B.S. in Physical Science and Biology in 1968 from Memphis State University. He was recipient of an American Cancer Society student grant (1974 - 1977) for doctoral research project and attended University of Tennessee in Memphis where he earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1977. As a result, he published a presentation on the new property of the plasminogen activation peptide(s): Growth stimulation and protease modification. Conference on fibroblast surface protein with the The New York Academy of Sciences. He continued his education at University of Tennessee in Memphis where he earned an M. D. in Medicine in 1986. From 1977 - 1981, he did Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Hematology/Oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He had been Coordinator of Research of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Association in Memphis; served internship and residence in internal medicine at Methodist Hospital in Memphis; did psychiatry residency at University of Tennessee in Memphis, was Medical Director for the Columbia Area Mental Health Center; was Medical Director and Vice President of Medical Services for Pinnacle Health in Columbia; and had a private practice in psychiatry in Columbia. Most recently he was employed by Kentucky Psychiatric Services. Through the years, Dr. Hall had numerous publications including a book published by Plenum in 1996, From Memories to Mental Illness: A Conceptual Journey.Survivors include his wife, Sara Smith Hall of Columbia; one daughter, Laura Elizabeth Hall of Columbia; two stepchildren, Andrew Houston Legg and Rachel Fagan Legg, both of Columbia; one sister, Peggy (William) Nobles of Germantown; one brother, Ronald Redwine Hall of Boston, Massachusetts; mother-in-law, Blanche Smith of Columbia; father-in-law, Norris (Peggy) Smith of Columbia; and five nieces and nephews.Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Cary Pulliam, Dr. Grant Barr, Dr. Robert McArthur, Dr. Ralph Barr, and Dr. Rod Poling.