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Thomas Leonard Hall, known as “Len” to friends, family and everyone in-between, was a long-time Yukoner who passed away with only a few days left of January 2025.
The 2nd youngest of 6 brothers and sisters, Len was born on June 2nd of 1926 to Percival and Florence Hall on a farmstead near Fairmede, Saskatchewan, Vandura area. When Len was a child his father died unexpectedly, leaving his mother and siblings to continue running the farm.
During WWII, Len and his younger brother kept the family farm afloat while several siblings were part of the war effort. After his brothers and sisters returned, Len spent a few years with the RCMP, which brought him from Saskatchewan to Manitoba to the Yukon. He was the last Mountie at Fort Selkirk after G.I. Cameron, before the station was moved to Minto. Many years later, the stories of his time in the Yukon would be the basis of his daughter Cathy’s decision to come for a two-week vacation to see the Yukon for herself (a trip which has lasted 49 years so far!).
After the Yukon, Len returned to the prairies of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, where he married and had a small family – son Cameron, and daughters Catherine and Cynthia. The family moved to Victoria, BC, where he worked in a lumber yard. When his children were teens, Len became a single man again. He never dated or remarried. After the tragic death of his son Cameron in 1980, Len spent time with friends on Vancouver Island and returned often to Saskatchewan to visit family.
Once it became clear his daughter Cathy would make her home in the Yukon, Len bought a small property on the South Klondike Highway. Len’s time growing up during the “dirty 30s” and through the scarcities of WWII led to a lifetime of ingenuity and doing the best with what was on hand. The man could fix almost anything with a screwdriver, duct tape and sweat, and “accidently” built a second house at his property, which had originally started out as a garage.
Len moved between Saskatchewan, where he immersed himself in the small community of Wawota, and the Yukon several times, but chose home to be where his daughter Cathy’s tiny but mighty family lived. He returned to the Yukon and resided first in his own home then in a senior’s apartment up until his early 90’s. At 92 he moved to the home of his granddaughter, Angie. His last 14 months were spent at Whistle Bend Place Care Facility.
Len loved music and played the violin up until his 97th year. He was a quiet man with few friends but could be convinced to join a jam if there was another guitar or fiddle player available. Throughout his 98 years people would remark that he looked younger than a man of his age, and he would reply, “Yes, but I’ve looked like this all my life!”
Fiercely independent to the point of injury, his slow decline took a drastic turn for the worse the week before his passing. After a short hospital stay, ever the chronically early and stubborn old guy, he died peacefully back in his own room at Whistle Bend Place, a punctual 15 minutes before family arrived to watch over him.
There will be no funeral service as he outlived all his immediate family and friends. Len was predeceased by his son, Cameron Hall, his 6 brothers and sisters, and his favourite easy chair. He is survived by his daughters Cathy Hall, Cindy Rusnak (Brian), his devoted granddaughter, Angie Hall, his great-grandchildren Nyla and Jace Jansen-Hall, several nephews and nieces including Rhonda Hall and Coralee Brehaut, and a smattering of people he would give random advice to.
To the House 5 Whistle Bend Place staff, our family knows it is your job to manage care for our loved ones, but you also laugh with us, worry with us, and grieve with us when they go. Please know your time and patience is valued. Thank you to the doctors and the many nursing staff at WGH for taking care of Len in his last week of medical needs.
In lieu of flowers or cards, please just be kind to one another, and “don’t take any wooden nickels.”
June 2 1926 January 29 2025
Death notice for the town of: Whitehorse, Province: Colombie britanique
death notice Thomas Leonard “Len Hall June 2 1926 January 29 2025
obituaries notice Thomas Leonard “Len Hall June 2 1926 January 29 2025
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