John Cherry Hall age 88 of Centerville passed away Saturday (August 26, 2014) from natural causes. John was a native of Yorkville, IL and served in the Navy on the USS Bennington (CV-20) during WWII as an Aviation Radioman on an Avenger Torpedo Bomber aircraft, receiving multiple Air Medals for his service. His keen eyesight contributed directly to success of one mission against the Yokosuka Naval Base on 18 July 1945. He participated in the victory formations that flew over the USS Missouri during the official surrender ceremonies. He also participated in drops of relief supplies to Allied prisoners of war. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the GI Bill and graduated with a BS in Ceramic Engineering. He was a lifetime member the Phi Kappa chapter of Alpha Chi Rho. He worked at Frigidaire in many capacities, at which time Frigidaire was the largest producer of ceramic porcelain in the world. John worked in management of the paint department at both Frigidaire and GM Bus & Truck in Moraine. After retirement from GM, he provided paint resources to GM while working for BASF. John married Mary Jeanne McFarlane, also of Yorkville on 6 September 1952 and they were happily married until her sudden and unexpected death in August 1994 from a cerebral hemorrhage. John and Mary were charter members of Southminster Presbyterian Church in Centerville, where they raised four children. John is survived by daughter Heather Hall, sons and daughters-in-law Timothy and Julie Hall of Liberty, MO, Todd and Janet Hall of Centerville, and Theodore and Amy Hall of Medina, OH. John is survived by grandchildren Olivia, Emmaline, Ava, Eliza, Audrey and Ingrid Hall of Centerville, Skylar, River and Isaiah of Medina, OH, Jonathan and Justin of Liberty, MO and Nathan of Chicago IL. In retirement John enjoyed golfing, maintaining physical fitness, gardening, cooking, following the Dayton Flyers, the Cincinnati Reds and Bengals. He possessed a sharp sense of humor and was able to share it without offense. He also passed on the family recipe for manhattans to his sons on annual golf trips to Santee, SC. He will be sorely missed, but will be with us always. We can only assume that Mary already has him hanging wallpaper that is now back in style. His greatest joy was making Mary happy. Excerpted from the Dayton Daily News of Aug. 27, 2014