Yolanda Blozan Hall

A celebration of the life of Yolanda Blozan Hall will be held in the Auditorium in the Education Center at The North Carolina Arboretum on Friday, July 7, at 10 am.

Yolanda was born in Bell, California on March 31, 1938. She was the daughter of the late Fred and Ella Blozan and the sister of Carl Blozan who now resides in Brevard, North Carolina, with his wife Kathie. She spent most of her early years in San Marino, California, attending the elementary and high school there, graduating from high school in 1956. She attended the University of Oregon for her first two years of college, graduating from Redlands University in 1960.

Her first job after graduating was as an assistant buyer at The Emporium in San Francisco. She married Richard Travis Hall, at the San Marino Congregational Church on August 5, 1961 They had been in the same youth group at the church in San Marino as teenagers but they fell in love in the San Francisco Bay Area while Dick was a graduate student at the University of California in Berkeley.

Yolanda was an excellent quilter, making baby quilts for relatives and friends, and adorning the walls in her Asheville home with some of her quilts. She was active in the Asheville Quilt Guild, serving as its president once. She was active in a quilting bee. She was a proud member of PEO and organized the “Reindeer Food” Christmas fund raiser. A non-reader until she had back surgery, she belonged to two book clubs reading a minimum of two books a month. She was active in the Ashville Symphony Guild Musical Feast program – Super Bowl parties and a Robbie Burns party. She loved to cook and entertain which she did with style. Weekly Euchre games, Rummikub, or Mexican Train were a feature of her life. But most of all, she loved the Arboretum, volunteering there for 20 years.

Yolanda loved travelling especially road trips. Trips across Canada and even to St. Pierre et Miquelon and Newfoundland were highlights. Travelling abroad began when she created a surprise trip to Paris in 1978. River cruises on the Danube and Rhine, scenic train trips around Switzerland, a visit to Singapore, a safari in southern Africa, a trip to Machu Picchu and the Galapagos, and to New Zealand just before Covid hit show the variety of places she visited.

Her many friends are invited to share in the celebration of a life well lived.

Memorial donations may be made in her name to the North Carolina Arboretum (www.ncarboretum.org).

Groce Funeral Home’s Lake Julian team is assisting the family.