Longtime west-side councilor Darla Hall dies

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Longtime west-side councilor Darla Hall dies

by: World Staff
2/22/2008

Darla Hall, longtime city councilor and west side community advocate, died Thursday. She was 69.

Services are pending with Heath-Griffith Funeral Home.

Hall was recently honored with the City Council's inaugural Lifetime Public Service Award. She served on the council from its inception in 1990 until 2000. Her five terms are the most served consecutively by a councilor.

After leaving the council, Hall remained active in the Southwest Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, the Red Fork Main Street association, Western Neighbors, the Webster High School Alumni Foundation and other organizations.

Hall was on the first council after the switch from a commission form of government in 1990. In an earlier interview with the Tulsa World, she said she was "scared to death" about running for the District 2 council seat when then-Mayor Rodger Randle asked her to help establish a new form of city government.

She said when she was first elected, "I didn't know beans about city government. None of us did. But we found our way through it, making some mistakes and a lot of progress as we did it."

Hall championed infrastructure, development and public safety in her district.

"Sometimes it was about the smallest of things -- like putting in a stop sign in a certain area to cut down traffic -- but it would thrill people to death," Hall said in an interview with the Tulsa World. "You would have thought you gave them a million dollars."

[Conan71]

I had just heard Weds. she was not doing well at all.  

She did a lot for the West Side.

Godspeed Darla.

[AngieB]

From the Tulsa County News:

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S. 33rd W. Ave. being re-named for Darla Hall
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02/20/2008

A couple of weeks ago, Eddie Creekpaum asked City Councilor Rick Westcott about naming S. 33rd W. Ave. after Darla Hall.

"I am pleased to report that my application to Traffic Engineering has been officially approved and it will be done," Westcott said.
Traffic Engineering will start work on manufacturing the sign next week, a process that should take 3-4 days.
The fee is being split equally between Townwest Sertoma and the Southwest Tulsa Chamber of Commerce.
Council Aide Keri Fothergill, will work with Hall and everyone to schedule a formal unveiling.
But, assuming that the City can get the sign manufactured by the end of this week, he was looking at the week of Feb. 25.
"So, as soon as we can get it done, S. 33rd W. Ave. will be known as Darla Hall Boulevard," Westcott said.
He thanked Eddie, for making the suggestion, and Townwest Sertoma and the SW Chamber for paying the fee that's involved.

I think that's really nice...I guess they didn't know at the time she wouldn't live to see it. So sad... []