RALEIGH - Geraldine Alford Hall, 88, died Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 at home. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at Millbrook Baptist Church, with visitation from 10 - 10:45 a.m. prior to the service. Entombment will follow at Historic Oakwood Cemetery.

A native of Franklin County, she was daughter to the late George August and Martha Blanche Sykes Alford. She was retired from N. C. State, Agriculture Extension Service.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Oscar Hall, and all her siblings.

Surviving: son, George Lyman (Miriam “Snookie”) Hall of Emerald Isle; and two grandchildren.

Flowers welcomed or memorials may be made to the Wolf Pack Club.

Arrangements are with Strickland Funeral Home, Wendell, www.stricklandfuneralhomes.net.