Adele Hall, Wife of Hallmark Chair, Dies at Age 81

Kansas City public leader Adele C. Hall, the wife of Hallmark Cards Chairman Donald J. Hall, has died. At the age of 81 years.

Room collapsed and died suddenly on Saturday at home in Hawaii, Hallmark Cards spokesman Steve Doyal said Monday. Doyal said Hall had breakfast with her husband and "worked at the post office when he suddenly felt dizzy and collapsed."

Hall was born in 1931 in Lincoln, Nebraska, is married to her husband for nearly 60 years, the company, based in Kansas City greeting card, he said.

He is active in various organizations in Kansas City, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and was president of the Mercy Hospital for Children and the Great Kansas City Community Foundation. Hall has also held leadership positions on the boards, including the Black College Fund, attractions Luce Foundation and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

It was called the Kansas Citian, in 1990, becoming the first woman to hold the title. E 'was also the first woman president of the Heart of America road and was president of the Mercy Hospital for Children and the Great Kansas City Community Foundation.

"Adele was interested in a wide range of needs of the community with a great passion for the needs of children," he said in a statement Doyal. "It was hard work for the interests of some way -. Visionary as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Energy Champion and a catalyst for change, a member of the Working Committee, which provides fundraising and weapons voluntarily "

Funerals are pending. Hall is survived by her husband, two children and several grandchildren.