SPRINGFIELD — Robert Logan Hall Jr., who owned and operated Hall Refrigeration in Springfield for 33 years, died Tuesday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Springfield Community Hospital. He was 66.

        Mr. Hall was an avid gardener and environmentalist. He kept his property impeccably landscaped and his efforts won him the Springfield Businessmen's Award for Community Beautification 1986.

        He was born in Cincinnati to Robert Logan Hall Sr. and Dorothy Henefelt Hall in 1936. The family moved to Amelia in 1942 and opened Hall Supermarket.

        Mr. Hall graduated from Amelia High School in 1954.

        In 1959, he enlisted in the Air Force and served four years in Okinawa and Thailand, working on the flight line. After he was honorably discharged, Mr. Hall studied the refrigeration and air-conditioning business at a technical school in Amelia. After serving a two-year union apprenticeship, he was employed by Lawson Dairy Co., which sent him to work in Springfield for two years.

        In 1965, Mr. Hall started his own business in Springfield.

        “He was a very successful businessman but also a great environmental advocate and gardener,” said his wife, Joy Stinchcomb Hall, a retired second-grade teacher in the Springfield City Schools.

        “One year, we grew pumpkins and the schoolchildren came on a field trip to help harvest and carve the pumpkins. They sold the extra pumpkins and generated their own monies for extras.”

        She said those students opened bank accounts and even sent some money to Washington to help pay down the national debt.

        Mr. Hall was a longtime member of Lindale Baptist Church in Springfield.

        In addition to his wife, survivors include two sons, Robert Allen Hall of Amelia and Robert Logan Hall III of Sydney; two sisters, Nancy Hall Parrish of Bethel and Jacqueline Hall Fischer of Urbana; and a brother, Thomas J. Hall of Amelia.

        Visitation is 1-2 p.m. Saturday at E.C. Nurre Funeral Home, 177 Main St., Ohio 125, Amelia, followed by a graveside service at 2:15 p.m. at Mount Moriah Cemetery, 686 Mount Moriah Drive, Withamsville.

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