Father: Joseph Taylor Bird (1848–1918)
Mother: Annie Creal Ridenbaugh (1858–1937)
First home was in the Quality Hill area of Kansas City, on 13th Street between Washington and Broadway, north of what is now Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (which the family later joined). Later the family moved to a large brick house with red stone trim at 706 W 10th Street, then to the William McGraw Reid house on the northeast corner of 36th and Walnut, then to their own home, Elmhurst, at Valentine and Broadway. It was at Elmhurst where she debut as a young woman and later married Porter Thomas Hall (18 Apr 1928).
Josephine was educated at Miss Barstow's, a private school for girls. She also completed two years of study at The Florentine School in Florence, Italy. She traveled extensively to Continental Europe, England, and South America and had a keen knowledge of many countries and their governments.
Her husband, Porter T. Hall, was Chairman of the Board of Emery Bird Thayer, a prominent department store in downtown Kansas City, Missouri which originalLy was a dry goods store owned by Josephine's father.
She had one son, Joseph Bird Hall, born on 1 Apr 1930.
At the time of her death, the local newspaper said: "Mrs. Hall was a beautiful woman, one whose pulchritude increased with accumulation of years, impeccable in taste and the embodiment of that invisible thing which mysteriously imparts a gratifying significance to our mortal day."
Residence at time of death: 1228 W 55th Street, Kansas City, Missouri
Cause of death: Cerebral hemorrhage due to arterial hypertension at 9:15 p.m.
Burial: 20 Mar 1943
Age: 53 years 11 months 14 days
Mother: Annie Creal Ridenbaugh (1858–1937)
First home was in the Quality Hill area of Kansas City, on 13th Street between Washington and Broadway, north of what is now Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (which the family later joined). Later the family moved to a large brick house with red stone trim at 706 W 10th Street, then to the William McGraw Reid house on the northeast corner of 36th and Walnut, then to their own home, Elmhurst, at Valentine and Broadway. It was at Elmhurst where she debut as a young woman and later married Porter Thomas Hall (18 Apr 1928).
Josephine was educated at Miss Barstow's, a private school for girls. She also completed two years of study at The Florentine School in Florence, Italy. She traveled extensively to Continental Europe, England, and South America and had a keen knowledge of many countries and their governments.
Her husband, Porter T. Hall, was Chairman of the Board of Emery Bird Thayer, a prominent department store in downtown Kansas City, Missouri which originalLy was a dry goods store owned by Josephine's father.
She had one son, Joseph Bird Hall, born on 1 Apr 1930.
At the time of her death, the local newspaper said: "Mrs. Hall was a beautiful woman, one whose pulchritude increased with accumulation of years, impeccable in taste and the embodiment of that invisible thing which mysteriously imparts a gratifying significance to our mortal day."
Residence at time of death: 1228 W 55th Street, Kansas City, Missouri
Cause of death: Cerebral hemorrhage due to arterial hypertension at 9:15 p.m.
Burial: 20 Mar 1943
Age: 53 years 11 months 14 days
Father: Joseph Taylor Bird (1848–1918)
Mother: Annie Creal Ridenbaugh (1858–1937)
First home was in the Quality Hill area of Kansas City, on 13th Street between Washington and Broadway, north of what is now Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (which the family later joined). Later the family moved to a large brick house with red stone trim at 706 W 10th Street, then to the William McGraw Reid house on the northeast corner of 36th and Walnut, then to their own home, Elmhurst, at Valentine and Broadway. It was at Elmhurst where she debut as a young woman and later married Porter Thomas Hall (18 Apr 1928).
Josephine was educated at Miss Barstow's, a private school for girls. She also completed two years of study at The Florentine School in Florence, Italy. She traveled extensively to Continental Europe, England, and South America and had a keen knowledge of many countries and their governments.
Her husband, Porter T. Hall, was Chairman of the Board of Emery Bird Thayer, a prominent department store in downtown Kansas City, Missouri which originalLy was a dry goods store owned by Josephine's father.
She had one son, Joseph Bird Hall, born on 1 Apr 1930.
At the time of her death, the local newspaper said: "Mrs. Hall was a beautiful woman, one whose pulchritude increased with accumulation of years, impeccable in taste and the embodiment of that invisible thing which mysteriously imparts a gratifying significance to our mortal day."
Residence at time of death: 1228 W 55th Street, Kansas City, Missouri
Cause of death: Cerebral hemorrhage due to arterial hypertension at 9:15 p.m.
Burial: 20 Mar 1943
Age: 53 years 11 months 14 days
Mother: Annie Creal Ridenbaugh (1858–1937)
First home was in the Quality Hill area of Kansas City, on 13th Street between Washington and Broadway, north of what is now Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (which the family later joined). Later the family moved to a large brick house with red stone trim at 706 W 10th Street, then to the William McGraw Reid house on the northeast corner of 36th and Walnut, then to their own home, Elmhurst, at Valentine and Broadway. It was at Elmhurst where she debut as a young woman and later married Porter Thomas Hall (18 Apr 1928).
Josephine was educated at Miss Barstow's, a private school for girls. She also completed two years of study at The Florentine School in Florence, Italy. She traveled extensively to Continental Europe, England, and South America and had a keen knowledge of many countries and their governments.
Her husband, Porter T. Hall, was Chairman of the Board of Emery Bird Thayer, a prominent department store in downtown Kansas City, Missouri which originalLy was a dry goods store owned by Josephine's father.
She had one son, Joseph Bird Hall, born on 1 Apr 1930.
At the time of her death, the local newspaper said: "Mrs. Hall was a beautiful woman, one whose pulchritude increased with accumulation of years, impeccable in taste and the embodiment of that invisible thing which mysteriously imparts a gratifying significance to our mortal day."
Residence at time of death: 1228 W 55th Street, Kansas City, Missouri
Cause of death: Cerebral hemorrhage due to arterial hypertension at 9:15 p.m.
Burial: 20 Mar 1943
Age: 53 years 11 months 14 days
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