1946
Myrl
2022
Myrl Anne Hunter Hale
May 2, 1946 — July 31, 2022
Myrl Anne Hunter Hale passed away July 31, 2022, at the age of 76, due to various medical conditions, in addition to complications of a Covid-19 variant. As per Anne’s wishes, she has been cremated, and Sherm has received her ashes.
Anne is survived by her husband, Sherm Hale, their children, Christian, Ryan (Maggie), and their four kids Victoria, Olivia, Ian and Liam, and their daughter Melissa (Kevin) and their three kids, Kameron (Megan), Kamille (Hunter), and Kimberlee, and her eight siblings.
Anne was born in Salt Lake City Utah on May 2, 1946 to Marjorie (nee Riches) and John Poulson (Pouly) Hunter (both deceased). She was a loving, wonderful, funny, kind and adventurous daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother. She loved her parents, husband, children, grandchildren and siblings: Susan, John, Robert (Bobby), Marcia, Marc (Hutch), Matthew, Doug and Lisa. She will be missed by so many people.
Anne grew up on Oneida Street in Salt Lake, where she made a wide group of friends from her school years at Rosslyn Heights Elementary, through Hillside Junior, Highland High, and the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority at the U of U. Her BFF’s were Judy Lane and Claudia Morgan (Scalley) who all leaned on each other through various marriage woes, children, illnesses, and always with love, kindness and humor.
Anne graduated from Highland High School in 1964 and from the University of Utah in 1968 with a Cum Laude degree in Elementary Education, and taught at the old Monroe Elementary School in Granger, UT for one year.
Anne met Sherm while they both worked at Safeway while they were U of U students. She worked in the bakery, and he was a stocker/checker. In 1966 Sherm got up the nerve to ask Anne out on a date, and she accepted.
On that first date Sherm said he instantly knew that Anne was something special, quickly realizing that he wanted to spend his whole life with her. They were exact opposites in personalities, but somehow they made it work, wonderfully.
Anne and Sherm became engaged on her birthday in May 1967, and were married in December. The newlywed’s spent their honeymoon in San Francisco and Carmel, California.
After that first year of teaching, Anne made a career change and became a medical transcriptionist, a career she magnificently continued for the next 40 years, with time off when their children started arriving.
In early 1969, Anne found out she was pregnant. During a routine mid-pregnancy appointment she called Sherm while he was in a dentist’s chair, and full of Novocain. Giddy with excitement and laughter, she then dropped the bombshell: They were having twins! Their lives changed forever!
That autumn, on October 20, Christian Andrew and Ryan Patrick, were born. Anne returned to transcription work in mid 1970 while Sherm was still in school, during what they would later call the “Great Juggling Period.” Even with twin babies, Sherm in school and working full time, and a full-time job of her own, Anne proved to be a “master juggler,” and she made it all work with perfect timing. She loved being a mother and a wife, but for some reason, all of her free time was dedicated to taking naps. Twin babies is like herding kittens. Tiring.
Sherm finished his Masters Degree in Speech Pathology in 1974 and began practicing in public schools. Just before this time, Anne became pregnant with their third child, daughter Melissa Anne who was born on September 18, 1973.
The mid-70’s kick-started the Hale family’s far ranging vacations. California beaches, Disneyland and Sea World, the Grand Canyon, Zion’s, Bryce, Arches (sleeping on the beaches of the calm Colorado River), Canyonlands, Uintas. Everybody in the family always had a ball. These family vacations continued yearly until the 1990s when the kids started getting married, but Anne and Sherm continued their travels together well into the 21st century with excursions to Europe, Central America, The Caribbean, Mexico, Cruises, The Bahamas.
Also in 1974, Anne’s parents bought a mountain top piece of property in Midway, Utah, where the expanding Hunter family built a kit cabin. Everyone converged at the cabin just about every weekend to work on putting it together, a major task for a family that had little experience in building anything. But the weekends were enjoyable, all the kids hiking up the mountains or down the dirt road to Anne’s Aunt Jean’s finished cabin. They had many adventures, and came back to the unfinished Hunter cabin absolutely filthy. We put them all in the cars and drove home to SLC, where the baths were refilled numerous times to get us all clean. Sunday nights were always family pizza nights at the Hunter’s, and everyone went home to bed, exhausted, late, but clean.
In 1982, Safeway gave Sherm an offer he couldn’t refuse, so the Hale family moved to Pleasanton, California. Anne didn’t even blink, telling Sherm, “OK, let’s do it.” Pleasanton was then a small town, over the mountains of the San Francisco East Bay. The family loved Pleasanton, and came to love the cultural and social opportunities events the Bay Area had to offer, even the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A whole new world opened up for them and they stayed there for almost 20 years.
Anne, with ease, kept finding new medical transcriptionist jobs, and from day one, became the “go-to” person for any questions about terminology. And this was long before Google and the Internet were commonly available.
Anne blossomed even brighter in Pleasanton. New friends, co-workers, neighbors, all were welcomed into her life. She was happy, the kids were doing well, but as the kids finished school, they each, one by one, decided to spread their wings, wherever that would take them. Chris moved to London, England and later to Washington D.C. Ryan served an LDS mission in Texas, then moved to Rexburg, Idaho, and finally returned to Utah, where he settled in Centerville with his wife, Maggie. Melissa, moved to Logan, UT, and, with her husband Kevin, moved to Poulsbo, Washington, and then to Oregon City, Oregon.
By the mid-1990’s it was just Anne and Sherm, the empty-nesters in Pleasanton, But in 2000,Safeway made Sherm another offer he couldn’t refuse, and the two of them moved to Aurora, Illinois, about 25 miles west of Chicago, where they created a new home. There they enjoyed new neighbors and Windy City’s cultural opportunities. And, as usual, Anne found another medical transcription job, but being able to work from home, long before the Covid-19 pandemic made that a thing.
Eventually Anne and Sherm began to discuss retirement, and the “where” always focused on returning to their roots in Salt Lake City. Anne had experienced a number of flair-ups of her various medical problems over the years, and they both decided it was the right time to make their move, settling in Holladay, Utah. Although their new home was way too big for just the two of them, they both knew it was the right decision, having family nearer, making new friends, and reconnecting with old ones, and of course, the ongoing travels.
But, in 2015, Anne’s medical problems flared-up again, but this time never left. In the last seven years of her life she had multiple hospitalizations, changes in medicines, new doctors, etc. But nothing seemed to work. The Anne of only a few years earlier was beginning to fade. But her family and friends still loved her unconditionally, and even though she has left her body, her love and kind spirit will continue forever.
Words of Wisdom in these Tough Times
I have learned that people will forget what you said,
People will forget what you did,
But people will NEVER forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations
Red Skelton
A limb has fallen from the family tree
I keep hearing a voice that says,
“Grieve not for me.”
Remember the best times,
The laughter, the song.
The good life I Iived
While I was strong.
Continue my heritage,
I’m counting on you.
Keep smiling and surely
The sun will shine through.
My mind is at ease,
My soul is at rest.
Remembering all,
How truly I was blessed.
Continue traditions,
No matter how small.
Go on with your life,
Don’t worry about falls.
I miss you all dearly,
So keep up your chin.
Until the day comes,
We’re together again.
Author UnknownService Information
Celebration of Life
September 18, 2022 at 5:00-7:00 PM
Sugar House Park, Sugar Beet Pavillion, 1330 East 2100 South, SLC, Utah
Anne is survived by her husband, Sherm Hale, their children, Christian, Ryan (Maggie), and their four kids Victoria, Olivia, Ian and Liam, and their daughter Melissa (Kevin) and their three kids, Kameron (Megan), Kamille (Hunter), and Kimberlee, and her eight siblings.
Anne was born in Salt Lake City Utah on May 2, 1946 to Marjorie (nee Riches) and John Poulson (Pouly) Hunter (both deceased). She was a loving, wonderful, funny, kind and adventurous daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother. She loved her parents, husband, children, grandchildren and siblings: Susan, John, Robert (Bobby), Marcia, Marc (Hutch), Matthew, Doug and Lisa. She will be missed by so many people.
Anne grew up on Oneida Street in Salt Lake, where she made a wide group of friends from her school years at Rosslyn Heights Elementary, through Hillside Junior, Highland High, and the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority at the U of U. Her BFF’s were Judy Lane and Claudia Morgan (Scalley) who all leaned on each other through various marriage woes, children, illnesses, and always with love, kindness and humor.
Anne graduated from Highland High School in 1964 and from the University of Utah in 1968 with a Cum Laude degree in Elementary Education, and taught at the old Monroe Elementary School in Granger, UT for one year.
Anne met Sherm while they both worked at Safeway while they were U of U students. She worked in the bakery, and he was a stocker/checker. In 1966 Sherm got up the nerve to ask Anne out on a date, and she accepted.
On that first date Sherm said he instantly knew that Anne was something special, quickly realizing that he wanted to spend his whole life with her. They were exact opposites in personalities, but somehow they made it work, wonderfully.
Anne and Sherm became engaged on her birthday in May 1967, and were married in December. The newlywed’s spent their honeymoon in San Francisco and Carmel, California.
After that first year of teaching, Anne made a career change and became a medical transcriptionist, a career she magnificently continued for the next 40 years, with time off when their children started arriving.
In early 1969, Anne found out she was pregnant. During a routine mid-pregnancy appointment she called Sherm while he was in a dentist’s chair, and full of Novocain. Giddy with excitement and laughter, she then dropped the bombshell: They were having twins! Their lives changed forever!
That autumn, on October 20, Christian Andrew and Ryan Patrick, were born. Anne returned to transcription work in mid 1970 while Sherm was still in school, during what they would later call the “Great Juggling Period.” Even with twin babies, Sherm in school and working full time, and a full-time job of her own, Anne proved to be a “master juggler,” and she made it all work with perfect timing. She loved being a mother and a wife, but for some reason, all of her free time was dedicated to taking naps. Twin babies is like herding kittens. Tiring.
Sherm finished his Masters Degree in Speech Pathology in 1974 and began practicing in public schools. Just before this time, Anne became pregnant with their third child, daughter Melissa Anne who was born on September 18, 1973.
The mid-70’s kick-started the Hale family’s far ranging vacations. California beaches, Disneyland and Sea World, the Grand Canyon, Zion’s, Bryce, Arches (sleeping on the beaches of the calm Colorado River), Canyonlands, Uintas. Everybody in the family always had a ball. These family vacations continued yearly until the 1990s when the kids started getting married, but Anne and Sherm continued their travels together well into the 21st century with excursions to Europe, Central America, The Caribbean, Mexico, Cruises, The Bahamas.
Also in 1974, Anne’s parents bought a mountain top piece of property in Midway, Utah, where the expanding Hunter family built a kit cabin. Everyone converged at the cabin just about every weekend to work on putting it together, a major task for a family that had little experience in building anything. But the weekends were enjoyable, all the kids hiking up the mountains or down the dirt road to Anne’s Aunt Jean’s finished cabin. They had many adventures, and came back to the unfinished Hunter cabin absolutely filthy. We put them all in the cars and drove home to SLC, where the baths were refilled numerous times to get us all clean. Sunday nights were always family pizza nights at the Hunter’s, and everyone went home to bed, exhausted, late, but clean.
In 1982, Safeway gave Sherm an offer he couldn’t refuse, so the Hale family moved to Pleasanton, California. Anne didn’t even blink, telling Sherm, “OK, let’s do it.” Pleasanton was then a small town, over the mountains of the San Francisco East Bay. The family loved Pleasanton, and came to love the cultural and social opportunities events the Bay Area had to offer, even the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A whole new world opened up for them and they stayed there for almost 20 years.
Anne, with ease, kept finding new medical transcriptionist jobs, and from day one, became the “go-to” person for any questions about terminology. And this was long before Google and the Internet were commonly available.
Anne blossomed even brighter in Pleasanton. New friends, co-workers, neighbors, all were welcomed into her life. She was happy, the kids were doing well, but as the kids finished school, they each, one by one, decided to spread their wings, wherever that would take them. Chris moved to London, England and later to Washington D.C. Ryan served an LDS mission in Texas, then moved to Rexburg, Idaho, and finally returned to Utah, where he settled in Centerville with his wife, Maggie. Melissa, moved to Logan, UT, and, with her husband Kevin, moved to Poulsbo, Washington, and then to Oregon City, Oregon.
By the mid-1990’s it was just Anne and Sherm, the empty-nesters in Pleasanton, But in 2000,Safeway made Sherm another offer he couldn’t refuse, and the two of them moved to Aurora, Illinois, about 25 miles west of Chicago, where they created a new home. There they enjoyed new neighbors and Windy City’s cultural opportunities. And, as usual, Anne found another medical transcription job, but being able to work from home, long before the Covid-19 pandemic made that a thing.
Eventually Anne and Sherm began to discuss retirement, and the “where” always focused on returning to their roots in Salt Lake City. Anne had experienced a number of flair-ups of her various medical problems over the years, and they both decided it was the right time to make their move, settling in Holladay, Utah. Although their new home was way too big for just the two of them, they both knew it was the right decision, having family nearer, making new friends, and reconnecting with old ones, and of course, the ongoing travels.
But, in 2015, Anne’s medical problems flared-up again, but this time never left. In the last seven years of her life she had multiple hospitalizations, changes in medicines, new doctors, etc. But nothing seemed to work. The Anne of only a few years earlier was beginning to fade. But her family and friends still loved her unconditionally, and even though she has left her body, her love and kind spirit will continue forever.
Words of Wisdom in these Tough Times
I have learned that people will forget what you said,
People will forget what you did,
But people will NEVER forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations
Red Skelton
A limb has fallen from the family tree
I keep hearing a voice that says,
“Grieve not for me.”
Remember the best times,
The laughter, the song.
The good life I Iived
While I was strong.
Continue my heritage,
I’m counting on you.
Keep smiling and surely
The sun will shine through.
My mind is at ease,
My soul is at rest.
Remembering all,
How truly I was blessed.
Continue traditions,
No matter how small.
Go on with your life,
Don’t worry about falls.
I miss you all dearly,
So keep up your chin.
Until the day comes,
We’re together again.
Author UnknownService Information
Celebration of Life
September 18, 2022 at 5:00-7:00 PM
Sugar House Park, Sugar Beet Pavillion, 1330 East 2100 South, SLC, Utah
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