Benton Hall

Profile Updated: July 24, 2024
Benton Hall
Where do you live now? Plano, TX USA
Spouse/Partner Susie
Are you employed? Cru
Children? Heather 1982
Benton IV 1985
Susanna 1988
Benton Hall

Yearbook

Yes! Attending Reunion
What have you checked off your Bucket List?

great wife, great family, great golf friends and a meaningful profession which i enjoy...and Numerous overseas trips

What remains on your Bucket List?

Been blessed with more travel than i ever imagined...all by God's grace...

so nothing remains on my Bucket list...except, I would love to see Benton IV married with kids...he says there will be a Benton V...but he needs to get busy!

Do you have a favorite school story?

maybe not a fav, but one I will never forget...

soph year on the way to Mrs Thompson's english...I was grabbed by Senior linebacker, Muddy McDaniels. It was during rush for Barron's and there was an instant crowd circled around us...He was upset about something he heard I had said about his girlfriend...
Before I could answer, Senior Jim Loudermilk walked right thru the crowd and pulled me by the arm out of harms way...asking if I was still going to help him with our class assignment ... I could hear Muddy yelling he didn't want to see me at school again that spring...and i complied!

As Jim and I entered the door to the class, I told him he was my hero!

years later, Muddy and I wound up in the same fraternity at TCU and had a good laugh about everything...At least that's how i remember it....

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Benton Hall has left an In Memory comment for Merrell Athon.
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Sep 24, 2024 at 4:10 PM

Merrell and my cousin were friends in Houston and from that friendship I offer what I know, which can be filled in by those with more knowledge of his death.

Sometime ago, Merrell was diagnosed with cancer. I called him at that time and he was feeling great and not sure about the diagnosis. Supposedly, the cancer returned with a vengeance. He was released from the hospital and sent home on hospice and passed shortly afterwards.

 

I had teased and goaded Merrell for years about returning for a Class Re Union...but he wouldn't have it. We had been friends in high school and roomates in college.  I owe him a great deal and am thankful for his impact on my life. 

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Benton Hall has left an In Memory comment for Winthrop C. Sherman.
Jun 19, 2023 at 9:27 AM

was reminded by a mutual friend that we had gone to Camp Crucis together with Win back in the 60's. I enjoyed Win and we also wound up in an 8th grade class together at Wedgewood. It didn't take many days before the kids in the class realized we were an experiment. Seems they had clumped most of the good students together in one class. Once realized, we became almost unmanagable and Wedgewood scrapped the idea at the end of that year. 

Win was always positive confident and fun. I appreciate him and the memories.

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Benton Hall has left an In Memory comment for James Allen Elder.
Nov 02, 2016 at 7:33 PM

Worked Six Flags with Allen and stayed at his house some. He would terrorize us on his car pool days to work. Years later I talked with him at the car lot. I enjoyed his company and just felt compelled to write. 

Benton Hall has left an In Memory comment for Chris Etter.
Oct 01, 2016 at 11:33 AM

Chris attended Wedgewood Jr I think and a bunch of us became better friends at Paschal.  Brett Wilson would have stories to tell and I hope Wadley will chime in here.  I consider myself in the second wave of friends with Chris.  Loved the 'Double O style' contest he won Senior year, the great Benbrook Lake crossing we did on rafts and floaties and inner tubes, and the Viking Feast in Forest Park which turned into a water balloon fight. 

I am sure there are many more stories.  I believe Chris fought in Vietnam. Some said he was a sniper. I know at the 20th he was living in the country north of Ft. Worth along the Jacksboro Highway somewhere in the trees, which made me jealous. Warm, charming and fun...Appreciate his service.

 

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Benton Hall has left an In Memory comment for David Norman Reed.
Sep 28, 2016 at 11:33 AM

 David Norman Reed

     What fun memories I have with one of the all time great guys from our class. David and Loudermilk and I carried off a senior trip to Galveston. We collected small crabs on the beach at night and released a bag full on an unsuspecting floor in the hotel that stretched out into the ocean...GalVest or something. Loudermilk and I were trying to surf(a painful experiment) and when we got back to the beach, Reed had been interviewed by a Houston newspaper for a story on surfing...we were as pale as the sand and obviously not surfers...but relished the thought of our pic in the Houston paper!

    A bunch of us worked at 6 Flags...Joe Argue, Allen Elder, Loudermilk, David Garrett and Reed.  We would carpool together. 6 Flags created their own social life including parties with kids from all over the metroplex...Reed had a date with a cute girl from Dallas one night and surprised her by reaching over the front seat and exhuming a cold bottle of Champaigne from a bucket of ice. Too funny. 

   Later, David and I roomed together at Texas when i transferred from TCU jr year...at least we did when he wasn't sleeping  on a couch in the Newman Center on Guadalupe having stayed up studying to get into law school.  We never knew when David would show up at the apartment, so we nicknamed him "The Lurker".  He made sure i was on the list for Pike match dates with different  sororities since the SAE's were on restrictions. 

   Lots more stories about David who married later in life to a great gal from a family of Longhorn fans. I agree with all the above...what a great and humble guy.  He will be missed next summer.

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Benton Hall has left an In Memory comment for Brett Wilson.
Sep 13, 2016 at 7:33 PM

Brett and I did a ton of stuff together, including papering blocks of our neighborhood one night with court reporters ticker tape...There was not a crack large enough for me to hide in the back seat of dad's Edsel on the way to Trinity Episcopal the next morning as we drove these same streets.  Strategy has always escaped me. For years in middle school, he was my best friend and we rode to Paschal in his 1958 Mercedes Coop...4 on the column and FM radio with a sunroof!  Miss you Amigo...