{"id":773033,"date":"2019-03-08T07:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=773033"},"modified":"2019-03-09T07:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T13:47:02","slug":"ralph-hall-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=773033","title":{"rendered":"Visitation, Funeral Set for Ralph Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/03\/Ralph-Hall.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/03\/Ralph-Hall-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-773034\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Funeral services will be held at 2:00pm on Saturday, March 16, at First United Methodist Church in Rockwall for longtime Congressman Ralph Hall. Visitation will take place from 6:00 to 8:00pm on Friday, March 15, at Rest Haven Funeral Home, also in Rockwall. Hall&#8217;s longtime strategist, Ed Valentine, says the Texas Republican died of natural causes at his home in Rockwall Thursday morning. The oldest-ever member of the U.S. House was 95. Hall became the oldest member of the U.S. House in 2012, breaking North Carolina Rep. Charles Manly Stedman&#8217;s record. Hall was 91 when he left office in 2014. Hall was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1980. He became a Republican in 2004, backed by his friend, George W. Bush.  Hall won the 2012 Republican primary despite a tea party challenge. But he lost in a primary upset in 2014. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Funeral services will be held at 2:00pm on Saturday, March 16, at First United Methodist Church in Rockwall for longtime Congressman Ralph Hall. Visitation will take place from 6:00 to 8:00pm on Friday, March 15, at Rest Haven Funeral Home, also in Rockwall. Hall&#8217;s longtime strategist, Ed Valentine, says the Texas Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=773033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visitation, Funeral Set for Ralph Hall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":773034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 06:26:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773033"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773268,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773033\/revisions\/773268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}