{"id":1000,"date":"2016-01-09T16:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T21:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2016-01-09T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T21:33:24","slug":"obituary-notice-dr-geraldine-gerri-s-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Obituary Notice &#8211; Dr. Geraldine &#8220;Gerri&#8221; S. Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HallGe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1001\" alt=\"HallGe\" src=\"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/HallGe-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>FORESTVILLE:\u00a0 Dr. Geraldine &#8220;Gerri&#8221; S. Hall, 68, of Putnam Road, Forestville, formerly of Cleveland, OH, died Friday, January 8th, 2016 at her residence, following a lengthy illness.\u00a0 She was born in Elizabeth, NJ on July 22, 1947, the daughter of the late Joseph and Victoria (Tower) Karausky.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hall was a 1969 graduate of St. Francis College in Lorretto, PA, receiving a Bachelors in Science with emphasis on Biology in a Pre-Med Program.\u00a0 She received a PhD in Microbiology from St. Bonaventure in 1975 then post doctorate training in Microbiology at Cleveland Clinic from 1977-1979.\u00a0 Dr. Hall worked as a Clinical Microbiologist at Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH, for 37 years retiring in January 2013. She also was a Professor of Microbiology at Lerner College of Medicine for Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH.\u00a0 Dr. Hall was a member of many Microbiology groups including Northeast Ohio Association Clinical Microbiology (TIIMS), Southeast Association for Clinical Microbiology (SCACM), American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP).\u00a0 She enjoyed crafts, crocheting, reading &amp; baking.\u00a0 Dr. Hall loved her Golden Lab Retriever &#8220;Molly&#8221; and was an ovarian cancer survivor for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include her husband, Dr. James O. Hall, of Forestville, whom she married July 3, 1976, in Iselin, NJ and a son, James Joseph &#8220;JJ&#8221; (Gabriela Prieto) Hall, of Toledo, OH.<\/p>\n<p>Friends are welcome to call at the Riles &amp; Woolley Funeral Home, 39 Main Street, Forestville, on Saturday morning, January 16<sup>th<\/sup>, from 10-12. \u00a0A Memorial Mass will be held at a later date in Cleveland, OH.<\/p>\n<p>The family suggests memorial donations may be made either to Brooks Memorial Hospital, 529 Central Avenue, Dunkirk, NY 14048 or to HOSPICE Chautauqua County, Inc. 20 W. Fairmount Avenue Lakewood, NY 14750.\u00a0 To post condolences go to www.rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORESTVILLE:\u00a0 Dr. Geraldine &#8220;Gerri&#8221; S. Hall, 68, of Putnam Road, Forestville, formerly of Cleveland, OH, died Friday, January 8th, 2016 at her residence, following a lengthy illness.\u00a0 She was born&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rilesandwoolleyfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}