Zella Munyon Hall, daughter of Amos and Maggie (King) Munyon, was born Sept. 16, 1908 seven miles Northwest of Agra and passed away on April 26, 2010 at Smith County Hospital Long Term Care at the age of 101 years 7 months and 10 days.

Zella's parents were homesteaders in Kit Carson County Colorado northwest of Kanarado, KS. Zella's mother returned to Agra before Zella was born to be in the security of her parents' home. She was born in a frame house on her grandparents' farm north of Agra. Later, after her birth, they returned near Kanarado to their soddie.

Zella lived her first nine years northwest of Kanarado. At first they lived in a two-room sod house and later they had a frame house moved to the west of the soddie. She attended the Shaw school while they lived in Kanarado. Her parents sold their homestead in Colorado in 1917 and purchased a farm near where Zella was born to raise their family of Zella, Florence, Elsie, Donald and Doren.

Zella attended Liberty country school north of Agra and developed a lifelong love of poetry and the teaching profession. At the age of 100 she recited from memory poems she had learned from her favorite teacher and mentor, Clara Goddard.

At an early age Zella was introduced to our Savior Jesus Christ and maintained a lifelong faith and loyalty to the Church of Christ. She fondly recalled her great uncle Samuel King as the inspiration for her belief and was baptized in a stock tank near his home.

She graduated from Agra High School in 1927. Zella attended Phillipsburg High School to obtain a Normal training certificate to become a teacher. Her first teaching job was at Valley school southwest of Kirwin where the Kirwin Lake reservoir is today. The following year she taught at Center school near her home and family north of Agra, having her youngest brother, Doren, as a student. The highlight of her career was her final two years of teaching 5th & 6th grade in Agra.

On Feb 25, 1933, Zella became a farmer's wife after marrying Roy Hall. To this union, two children, Donna and Larry, were born. Their early years of farming were on rental places before they purchased the Henderson farm north of Agra in 1950.

They shared that farm until Roy's health failed and he was forced into the nursing home in 1986. Zella had moved to Agra in 1986 but continued to go to the farm with Larry and care for the garden and household duties. They had been married 57 years when Roy passed away on Sept 16, 1990 leaving her a widow at age 82.

She continued to live in her little house in Agra until July 2002 when health factors forced her to enter the Smith County Hospital Long Term Care. She had suffered a long battle with cancer in her ear and she had also had two hip replacements, of which the second had to be removed due to complications. While at the nursing home she was tenderly loved and made many friends among nurses, other residents, and hospital personnel.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Amos and Maggie Munyon; husband, Roy; brothers, Doren and Donald Munyon; and sisters, Elsie Isernhagen and Florence McGinness.

Survivers include daughter Donna and husband Bill Bright of Lancaster, Ca.; son Larry and wife Pat Hall of Agra; granddaughters Vicki Abbate'of Fairview, OR, Terri Carter of Orinda, CA, and Kristi VanderHyde of Palmdale, Ca.; step grandchildren Mark Bright of Moorpark,, CA and Jeri Bright of Los Angeles, CA., Natalie Rickel of Lexington, NE., David Phinney of Grand Island, NE., Jeanette Meissinger of Goodland, KS., and Kristie Winters of McCook, NE.; seven great-grandchildren, nine step great-grandchildren and two step great-great-granddaughters; sisters-in-law Virginia Munyon and Edna Powell, both of Agra; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 1, 2010 in the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg, with Pastor Becky Saddler officiating. Burial followed in the West Cedar Cemetery, Phillips County, KS.

Memorial contributions may be made to the "Save The Agra Lake".