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Samuel Hall Obituary, Death – Samuel M. Hall, 87, of Canandaigua, passed away on February 3, 2022. Nine grandchildren, including Alan, Andy and Angela Noviasky, Paul Spanagel, Max and Lex Colcord, Cameron Newhook, Teaghan, and Anouk Meeker, as well as cousins and extended family members, survive him.

His four daughters, Becky (David) Spanagel, Lisa (Lori) Gnau, Laura (Michael) Colcord, and Lindsey (Greg) Meeker, also survive him. 2014 saw the predecease of his spouse, Helen Hall. Sam was the youngest of three children born into a farming family in Allegany County, in the Southern Tier of New York State, which he always referred to as “Appalachia,” in the midst of the Great Depression. The one-room schoolhouse in Wiscoy served as his first classroom.

He went to the same school as Helen, his future life partner, and they were only one grade apart. Sam was dispatched to Texas for training as a navigator in the United States Air Force. After that, he and his spouse worked for a number of years at US bases in the Pacific. Sam served in the military and then moved back to western New York to focus on his studies at the University of Buffalo, where he was a law student.

Sam committed his lengthy legal career to helping his customers make “The Law” work for them after passing the bar in 1962. Sam fervently felt that attorneys should advocate for the needs of the public in addition to upholding justice, drawing attention to issues, and pointing out critical structural and political reforms in order to improve society. Sam quickly established himself as a pillar of the community in many ways after relocating his young family to Canandaigua in the middle of the 1960s, including several decades of devoted membership in the First United Methodist Church.

As Chairman of the Democratic Party’s City Committee during the late 1970s, he also initiated power changes that resulted in the election of Canandaigua’s first female mayor, leading to a revolution in local politics. Later, in the early years of the twenty-first century, Sam contributed to putting the Canandaigua Unitarian Universalist Church on more stable ground.

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