Ethel and Porter Hall

 Ethel was born on a farm west of Orient to Anna Hansen. She joined the Kuper family when Joe Kuper married Anna Hansen on 11 November 1913. She grew to her teens on the family farms, graduating from Faulkton High School. After graduation, she worked several jobs in the area, going to Deadwood for awhile, then returning to Faulkton where she  married Porter Hall ( b. 1 July 1889) in September of 1936. They went off to the Worlds Fair in New York for their honeymoon.
    Porter operated a garage in  Harrold before they sold out and moved to Pierre. There he worked as a filling station attendant and later as a motel clerk until retiring.   Ethel worked for the phone company in Pierre for 25 years before retiring and enjoyed her retirement to the fullest, always gadding about with her friend, Rufus, spending time at the senior citizen's center, working in her garden, watching the birds from her kitchen window  and counting her money)  before moving into an apartment in Miller (to be near her sister Edna) and then into the Good Samaritan Nursing Home where she passed away in 2005. She and Porter had no children. He passed away 3 May 1970 and is buried at Orient. Always the prim and proper lady, Ethel could always be found  with her hair and makeup just right. Just wouldn't do to be seen "not ready for the day".