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Denman Island mourns Norman Everett Hall

Hall, who moved to Denman Island with his wife in 1983, died on August 16, according to a published obituary.

The Denman Firestarter · reporting 2022-08-25 · compiled 2026-10-01

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Norman Everett Hall died on August 16, according to an obituary published in the August 25 issue of The Islands Grapevine.^[1]

Hall and his wife moved to Denman Island in 1983, where he designed the house they helped build, the obituary said.^[1] He also designed their garden, and the couple wrote a gardening book, it said.^[1]

The obituary said there will be no service by request and that Hall’s ashes are to be scattered with his wife’s in the Denman Island Natural Burial Cemetery.^[1]

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