Carl Hall's family gathered around the phone to tell the ostrich joke, the stories about buying Christmas presents 11 months early and buying Ange ou Demon perfume as an anniversary gift for Stacey, even after they swore no gifts.
"He loved it when the house was very full and loud," said Madison Hall, one of his three daughters. "He would prefer to have all of us live here, all of the time."
Those stories are how Carl Hall would want people to remember him. He was the second youngest in a family of 12. Hall and wife Stacey have four children and a grandchild.