Learn About Two Sisters Who Have Reunited at Spring Park
The Hall Sisters, as they have been called most of their lives, have both retired together at our assisted living and memory care community in Travelers Rest, SC after many eventful years.
How has Spring Park helped The Hall Sisters enjoy their retirement?
Our assisted living & memory care community has helped them reconnect and relax with other friendly seniors. They have also contributed to our community’s positive atmosphere with their interesting stories, love for the arts, and lighthearted personalities.
Where did The Hall Sisters grow up?
The two sisters were raised in the Judson and Monaghan communities in Greenville. Their parents were from the East Tennessee mountains and came to Greenville to work when the textile industry was booming.
Because they had always been involved in church, music was a big part of their lives and still is. Their grandfather taught music and shape note singing; Bea can still sing those Do Rae Mis and read shape notes. The sisters grew up singing in a trio with their middle sister, Mildred, and continued to sing in the church choir and other trio’s as long as they were physically able.
Bea is a great entertainer for the residents of Spring Park, sharing her talent at the piano most nights as time permits. When Bea graduated from Parker High School, she married Clyde and began a family.
How did the sisters spend their adult lives before moving to Spring Park?
Bea worked a short while in the Judson Mill but then became a stay-at-home mom. She and her husband lived in the Berea community next door to her parents and eventually to Faye as well as her husband, David, when they bought their family’s home in 1998.
Bea has two grandsons and daughters-in-law along with three great-grandchildren. She has been an excellent cook. Clyde once had a big garden; she canned and frozen vegetables from that garden each year to make delicious homemade fried apple pies, a real treat for anyone lucky enough to taste them! She even tried to mail the pies to Faye’s son in-law and grandson when they were deployed to Iraq. Sadly, that did not turn out well for her culinary treats.
Bea and Clyde moved to Spring Park in January 2015; sadly, Clyde died later that year.
Faye attended both Parker and Greer High Schools but always considered Parker her school.
She met her husband, David, while he was cruising Main Street on Halloween. Afterward, she went home and told Bea, “I’ve met the most handsome man!” They married in May 1962.
In addition to one daughter, Tammy, Faye has two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She worked in several sewing halls in the area and became an excellent seamstress, often making many of the dresses she and her daughter wore. Later, she went to work for her middle sister’s pallet company as a bookkeeper and payroll clerk until her retirement.
Faye moved to Spring Park in September 2020 after the passing of her husband. When she learned that a room was available in the same hall as her sister, Faye immediately made plans to move in.
The Hall family is a big, loud, fun-loving, music-playing, tight-knit family sharing many holidays and family gatherings. At times Faye’s grandchildren spent many after-school days and summers with their Aunt Bea, but the name never felt right and didn’t stick. Since Bea’s grandchildren called her “Mama Bea”, Faye’s grandchildren began calling her that too because they think of her as another grandmother. Now even we affectionately refer to them as “Mama Bea” and “Granny Faye”.
If you ever have the pleasure of meeting this duo, you will come away knowing the older sister is the boss and jokester while the other one eventually chimes in with clever remarks. The Hall Sisters are a pair to be both loved and revered.
