Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, March 30, 1993 TAG: 9303300337
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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OBIT HALL, VICTORIA ILER
HALL, Victoria Iler, 93, of Salem, died Friday, March 26, 1993, at Roanoke
Memorial Hospital. She once was employed as advertising manager of Thalhimers
Department Store in Richmond, where she lived from the early 1920's until the
1970's, when she moved to Salem. Her first husband was a novelist and a
political writer for the Richmond News Leader, Roy C. Flannagan, who died in
1951. She later married Raymond C. Hall, who was founder and Chief Executive
of Hall and Company Advertising Agency. Mr. Hall died in 1985. Mrs. Hall was a
native of Evansville, Indiana, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Iler.
She graduated from area high schools and attended Butler University and Ohio
State University where she joined Kappa Alpha Theta. She majored in journalism
and worked on the Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, where she met her first husband.
During World War II, when Colonel Flannagan served as U.S. Army Air Ground
Forces Liaison Officer, she served as public-relations officer in the Richmond
branch of the American Red Cross. She was a member of the Richmond Woman's
Club. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Z. V. (Patricia F.) Hooker, of
Salem; a son, Dr. Roy C. Flannagan Jr., professor of English, Ohio University,
Athens, Ohio; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Edmund G. (Patricia H.) Moore, of Virginia
Beach, Virginia. There are seven surviving grandchildren and seven
stepgrandchildren. Two great-grandchildren also survive. Memorial services
will be private. John M. Oakey & Sons are handling arrangements. St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, Salem, is the family's home church.
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