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Jim Sherry posted a condolence
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Miss you Dave. Bet there's a hell of a pick-up game going on up there!
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Lydia Wiggins-Azimi posted a condolence
Friday, September 11, 2015
Jennifer.
I am so very sorry
I kept calling the office listening to the voice mail, thinking Dr. Hall would be coming back to work.
He was a wonderful man.
You have ny deepest sympathy.
Love,
Lydia
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April lit a candle
Friday, July 3, 2015
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April lit a candle in memory of Dr. David Hall
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Becky and Francis Ling posted a condolence
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Very touching and mermorialble life story of Hall's family. Although we had only spent a couple of years cross over in PNG, but we have encounter so many spectacular stories of their sacrifice services in the communities wherever the Faith needs.......our heartiest condolences to the family.
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v. thompson posted a condolence
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
My sincere condolences to the family of Dr. David Hall. May you find comfort in your loving memories, and in God's promise to soon "swallow up death forever" and "wipe away the tears from all faces." (Isaiah 25;8) With deepest sympathy,
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Gaetan d'Hotman de Villiers posted a condolence
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
It is with sadness that we learn about David's death .We met him and his wife Ann during the five years (1980-1985) my wife Rosemay and I with our 3 children spent in Lae PNG. We were not of the Baha'i faith but we saw him very often in his massage clinic in Lae .We remember him as a man always smiling and ready to help others . Our thoughts and prayers are with the family
Gaetan d'Hotman de Villiers
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Marie Turley posted a condolence
Monday, June 29, 2015
I am stunned and saddened by this news. I got it after the services had been held today and so sad that I could not be there to celebrate David's life and grieve his passing with family and friends. I spent several years in homeopathy school with David and simply can't begin to summarize his presence, kindness, marvelous intellect and such deep humility in words. He was and is a light. He was also a really good cook. I always looked forward to pot luck Sundays when he brought his special soups or desserts. His spirit of love and acceptance, joy and empathy, still resonate in my heart. I can still hear his laugh! Prayers and condolences to his dear family as you journey through this loss. My heart is with you.
Love and Blessings,
Marie Turley
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Maxwell Alinikoff posted a condolence
Monday, June 29, 2015
It has taken some time to adequately gather what there is to say about the impression David has made.
Growing up in the Hendersonville Baha'i community, I was very fortunate to have such examples for absolute happiness, certitude, and firmness in the Covenant, in several male Baha'is who, now welcomed by Concourse on high, have only attained such a lofty place in the firmament of the heavens by completely submitting themselves to God's will. Radiantly acquiescing to his opportunities of service and the tests his life was filled with, David, in his own right, has always been a Baha'i man of distinction.
Happiness, joy, delight, all of these wonderful graces that uplift our soul is achieved mostly by means which David assuredly understood.
"Is any larger bounty conceivable than this, that an individual, looking within himself, should find that by the confirming grace of God he has become the cause of peace and well-being, of happiness and advantage to his fellow men? No, by the one true God, there is no greater bliss, no more complete delight." (Abdu'l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 2)
We do not need to ask the question of how souls like his accepted the Faith, inasmuch as we need to ask ourselves, what incontrovertible truth must we fully submit to in order to allow that same spirit to overpower our own egos, to let go of our attachments, to diffuse the Divine Fragrances, to edify the souls of those we come in contact with, and to manifest the fear of God in our conduct, our deeds, and our words.
David was a walking example of these this delight, and he was always mastering himself. He never said anything to me that was not necessary, and yet completely understood what I needed to hear, because as observant as he was, the core of my question was understood. If I ever spoke with my ego to David, however subtle it was, he would always give me an answer as if he really knew what I needed to hear.
The task of our lives is at hand. Again, I would again say that David had fulfilled that task.
"And yet, is not the object of every Revelation to effect a transformation in the whole character of mankind, a transformation that shall manifest itself both outwardly and inwardly, that shall affect both its inner life and external conditions? For if the character of mankind be not changed, the futility of God's universal Manifestations would be apparent." (The Book of Certitude, pp 240-241)
We must always be happy, as he wanted everyone around him to be. And it is difficult not to entertain that request, when we have had such a bounty of being part of his life.
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Marc Vloeberghs posted a condolence
Monday, June 29, 2015
That photo"of David speaks volumes - look at the radiant smile and joyous countenance - that was how we first knew David. The first time that Marc met David was when he was travelled to PNG from Mossman in Qld. As he tells it: We went in the "Yellow Peril" an old land cruiser,to Madang and the Highlands. He remembered David shouting over the roar of the engine "they're building a sugar mill here why don't you try to get a job there'. It was Christmas Day. We stopped, I had my interview and six months later the entire family moved to Ramu Sugar where I was employed as a training officer. Then we went to the Highlands and I had my first experience with mass declarations in PNG where the newly declared Bahaís wanted to put the Greatest Name on their shields for protection. There is so much more to say we will miss David so much, but look forward to meeting him again in the next world.
Marc and Helen Vloeberghs, Queensland
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Janice Jones posted a condolence
Monday, June 29, 2015
Beautiful memories. So sorry I missed the service. Sending hugs your way. We have lost a great guy.
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Charles Nightingale posted a condolence
Monday, June 29, 2015
O SON OF THE SUPREME! I have made death a messenger of joy to thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve? I made the light to shed on thee its splendor. Why dost thou veil thyself therefrom?
from the "Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah"
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Debra Darrell Wolf posted a condolence
Monday, June 29, 2015
David was the first Baha'i I met during my initial weeks at Sherman College of Chiropractic in Spartanburg, SC. He was one of the very special band of friends who gently and lovingly lead me to Baha'u'llah and made it possible for me to see His Beauty and Truth. I always felt like David and Ann where angels in this life, so I can only imagine their place now. David, I am so grateful for having known you. You and Ann have helped shape me as a Baha'i and you will both be in my heart forever.
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Dorrie and Graeme Hancock posted a condolence
Monday, June 29, 2015
We have very fond memories of David who we came to know during our years living in PNG. David's calm and assuring presence was always close to laughter that revelled in the joy of life, all of which rubbed off on us when we were enjoying his company, or getting treated! We are sure he is now recounting the many joys and exemplary efforts he made in his lifetime in all the places he has lived and with all the people he encountered. Thank you, David, for the blessing of your presence and friendship in our lives. Graeme and Dorrie Hancock, previously PNG and now Mongolia.
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Carol Curtis posted a condolence
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Wonderful, we will always remember his continual smile. Thank you for sharing his life with all of us. Sending love and prayers for everyone.......Carol
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Kim Bowers, ???, posted a condolence
Sunday, June 28, 2015
I knew David In the early 1970s when we were serving in Alaska together. Being more mature than I was, I looked up to him and trusted him. We lost touch over the years, particularly with me living in China, but I'll never forget him. ...prayers for his progress in the realm of lights. - Kim Bowers
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Jim Beasley posted a condolence
Sunday, June 28, 2015
I have not had the good fortune to know David long. However, the year or so that I have had that great gift since moving to Wilson County has given me an appreciation of what a unique soul he is. David and his wonderful wife were the first Baha'is from Wilson County I met on my first visit to the Nashville Baha'i Center. Their hospitality and love made me feel instantly like family. I know how much I will miss him is nothing compared to others in his family, community and practice whose lives he blessed.
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Jonas Eyford posted a condolence
Sunday, June 28, 2015
I will always treasure David. He lives in my mind as a powerful soul, an unrelentingly joyful being. He shaped the course of my life, inspiring me to become a chiropractor. I am forever grateful. All my love to his family.
Jonas
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Heather Cardin posted a condolence
Sunday, June 28, 2015
The writings of the Baha'i Faith say this: "He is a true Bahá'í who strives by day and by night to progress and advance along the path of human endeavor, whose most cherished desire is so to live and act as to enrich and illuminate the world, whose source of inspiration is the essence of Divine virtue, whose aim in life is so to conduct himself as to be the cause of infinite progress. Only when he attains unto such perfect gifts can it be said of him that he is a true Bahá'í." 'Abdu'l-Baha.
No person can know another's spiritual station, but for me, from the time I met David in Lae, Papua New Guinea, when I was only 21, to the long trek across impossible roads that he and the extended Baha'i family made to Madang to visit us, to the tender healing care in his work as a chiropractor, to his welcome when I came from the Highlands of Enga for respite at their home; later, to his ease with our then-small boys, Ayron and Jesse, to his laughter, which was his hallmark, when I last saw him at a dear friend's wedding: all of these memories remain indelible and mark David as a man whose presence 'enriched and illuminated the world.' Too soon gone. We have offered prayers for his illumined soul, and will continue to do so. With abiding love, Heather & Bernie
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Deloria Bighorn posted a condolence
Sunday, June 28, 2015
May your beloved father be showered with light on his path Home. With great respect, love and prayers, the Bighorn family.
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Mahin Sahih posted a condolence
Sunday, June 28, 2015
You are loved and missed greatly, dear David. My condolences and love to dear Hall family. Prayers for the advancement of his radiant, kind, beaming soul.
Mahin Sahih
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Solana Kloby-Varner posted a condolence
Sunday, June 28, 2015
David was an uncle to me. I knew from a very young age that he was a brother to my parents. Seeing him was seeing family. David you loved greatly and you are loved greatly. I'll miss your sense of humor and every time I eat pancakes I will think of you. I love you uncle.
-Your niece Solana
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Matina posted a condolence
Sunday, June 28, 2015
In your time of grief, I wish we could all be together to mourn the passing of David. He was much loved and will be greatly missed. May his memory be eternal.
With great sadness,
Matina, Dan, and Jennifer