Cathy Hall

Wasilla resident Cathy Hall, 58, died March 4, 2010, at home. A memorial service will be held in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., at a later date.

Cathy was born Feb. 24, 1952, in Sylva, N.C., to Dee Lloyd and Blanche (Parker) McMahan. In 1980, Cathy moved to Alaska, living in Anchorage and then later moving to Wasilla. She enjoyed arts and crafts, poetry and listening to music.

“A woman who gave so much and asked for so little in return. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then shall you begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance,” her family wrote.

Cathy is survived by her daughter, Tina Hall of Wasilla; son, Russel Hall of Anchorage; grandsons, Larry and Preston Hansen of Wasilla; grandson, Murphy Dean Hall of Anchorage; mother, Blanche Moore; brothers, Richard Dale McMahan, Dee Allen McMahan and Stanley McMahan, all of Sedro Woolley, Wash.; as well as many aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews of North Carolina and Washington.

She was preceded in death by her father, Red McMahan; nephew, Mike McMahan; and grandmother, Otha Cook.

Memorial donations can be sent to Russel Hall at 3940 Twilight Lane, Anchorage, AK 99516.

Arrangements were with Valley Funeral Home and Crematory in Wasilla.