Michael Guy "Mike" Hall

Michael "Mike" Guy Hall, 66, of Covington, Louisiana, a husband, father, grandfather, brother, son, uncle, and friend to many, passed away peacefully in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 2018, after a long illness and two days before he was planning to take his boat out into the Chesapeake Bay from his second home in Annapolis, Maryland, to watch fireworks and celebrate Independence Day with his wife and grandchildren. His wife, big brother, son, and daughter were all at his side as he moved on. Mike is best known for his love of children, animals of all types, throwing parties and celebrations big and small for his circles upon circles of friends and family, and his ever-present video camera that has left us with untold hours of family documentaries that we will treasure for generations. Mike was born in 1952 in Odessa, Texas, to Guy and Marion Hall, both of whom lived into old age. Brother to Bill, Gay, and the late Missy, Mike grew up in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated from Louisiana State University in 1974, where he studied business and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega (ATO). In 1975 he married the love of his life, Cheri, who remained by his side until his passing. The couple had two children, Mathison and Elizabeth, who grew up in New Orleans in a loving home and with boisterous extended families spread across the South but concentrated in East Texas and Southern Louisiana. On the professional side, Mike helped his father build a successful oil and gas fields servicing business in Southern Louisiana before striking out on his own to found and co-found two more firms in the oil and gas sector. He was also a certified public accountant and a licensed environmental compliance consultant. But Mike worked to live rather than lived to work, taking his family to the far flung corners of the Earth on many memorable trips, playing flag football with friends into his forties and breaking a half-dozen fingers along the way, and constantly tinkering in his workshop and on his property near Covington, Louisiana. Mike loved to travel and hated to read, loved to make mixed drinks but hated to cook, loved pork rinds and mustard and hated mayonnaise and anything that looks like it, and he never passed up an opportunity to throw a party. He loved to ski, camp, shoot (though he never hunted!), canoe, and go out to eat. Later in life he took to boating in his adopted home of Annapolis, Maryland, where he was receiving medical treatment and spending every moment he could with his wife, children, and grandchildren living in Annapolis while still making frequent trips home to Louisiana to see friends and family there. Though his time here was shorter than everyone would have wished, Mike Hall lived every day of his life to the fullest right up until the end. He will be dearly missed by his many, many friends and an ever growing family of grandchildren, grandnieces, grandnephews, and in-laws. Final arrangements were handled by the Cremation Society of Maryland, and his friends and family will hold a private celebration of life in Covington, Louisiana. In lieu of flowers, please become a blood donor or register and make a contribution to Be the Match.