Andrea Lea Hall
Age 58, a resident of Rogers, passed away Wednesday, August 10, 2022 in Fayetteville. She was born January 4, 1964 in Maywood, California, the daughter of Wayne and Mary LaVonne (Phillips) Hall.
Andrea graduated from Prairie Grove High School and completed her bachelor degree from the University of Arkansas. She continued to be a lifelong Razorback baseball and basketball fan.
Andrea joined Walton Enterprises January 1988 as one of only five employees. As the office grew, she worked in many capacities including accounting, payroll, human relations, and taxation. Most of her responsibilities centered around her role as a Senior Accountant. In many ways, Andrea embodied Walton Enterprises. In every role and every season, Andrea served with an eye for detail and conviction for quality. She carried that into the other part of her job as well—caring for her co-workers. While Andrea was highly valued for her contribution to her office responsibilities, she will perhaps be most missed for how she shaped a group of unrelated employees into a family. Andrea was loved by this work family for her outgoing, social, inclusive personality. Many never get a chance to experience someone like Andrea. Her coworkers at Walton Enterprises know how blessed they've been.
It is no surprise that Andrea became a CPA. She was smart but was also willing to put in the time to study. Just looking at all her accomplishments during our high school years will tell you this. Andrea was in many organizations but not in name only, or to sit for the picture, member. Andrea was an active member as you can see in the following list. Annual Staff: sophomore through senior year, she was the Assistant Editor her junior year and Editor her senior year; Future Homemakers of America: freshman through senior years, she served as Historian her senior year; Spanish Club: sophomore through junior years and President her junior year; Math and Science Club: sophomore through senior year and Vice President her senior year; National Honor Society: sophomore through senior years. Andrea was also in FBLA and FTA. She was also the Reporter her freshman year for Junior National Honor Society and served on the Student Council her freshman year. Sports included Basketball and Track her freshman year and Softball all 4 years of high school and before that. Her awards include Society of Distinguished High School Students, DAR Good Citizenship Award, Biology Award, Woman CI Civics Award, Girl’s State Delegate junior year, and recipient of the Elk National Scholarship. Andrea won second place her freshman year and first place sophomore year in the Science Fair and then attended the Regional Science Fair her freshman and sophomore years. She was elected Who’s Who Most Intelligent her sophomore year and Who’s Who Most Likely to Succeed her senior year.
With all these accomplishments throughout high school and life, Andrea’s greatest accomplishment was her friendship. We will miss her smile, sense of humor, her willingness to help with anything, her compassionate nature. Andrea was not just a classmate. She was our friend, and she will be missed. We had fun being prom servers our freshman year, wearing raincoats, holding umbrellas, and singing the song, “Singing in the Rain.” We were Rainbow girls learning to sit properly, going to convention, and staying up late. Bunking parties at her house when we were young. Running around in her 1960’s Ford Mustang. It was a standard, and she could stop on a steep hill and start again without rolling back. The nights during high school putting together floats for homecoming, Andrea was always there. I know we did some stuff that now we would say was dumb but wouldn’t have missed making the memories. We can’t miss mentioning that she loved her Route 44 Sonic drink.
This poem in on the last page of the yearbook our senior year of which Andrea was the Editor, and it describes Andrea well.
There is no greater blessing
Than a friend who always cares,
One who will remember us
In daily thoughts and prayers,
One who shares our happy times
And gives them added worth,
Who adds a touch of heaven
To all our days on earth.
Goodbye, our friend, and rest in peace.
She was preceded in death by her mother LaVonne Hall.
Survivors include her father Wayne Hall; one brother Charles Hall; one nephew Colton Hall and one niece Shelby Hall.
The family will receive friends Sunday, August 14, 2022, 2:00-3:00 PM at Luginbuel Funeral Home.
Funeral service will be held 10:00 AM Monday, August 15th, 2022, at Luginbuel Chapel in Prairie Grove. Burial will be in the Farmington Cemetery. No graveside service will be held.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Prairie Grove Senior Center or the Prairie Grove Library.