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Charles G. Hall
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Charles Gustave Hall, known as Pat Hall (November 15, 1930 - April 25, 2012) was a photojournalist from Nebraska and Wyoming. Early life Hall was born in Rock Island, Illinois, he was a United States Navy veteran of the Korean War, in which he served as an aerial photographer, with duties aboard the , USS Cusk (SS-348) and USS Carbonero (SS-337) during Regulus missile testing. He attended Roman Catholic-affiliated Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He worked at KMTV, the CBS affiliate in Omaha, as a producer from 1962 to 1965 for the later NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw. In 1965 he won annual the sweepstakes award and first place in news, pictorial, and picture story by the Nebraska Press Photographers Association. He was again given a merit award by the National Pres Photographers Association in 1966. Also in 1966 he was awarded the Professional Journalism Award of Creighton University. He also received honors from the Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Hall was nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize in photojournalism. He photographed each U.S. President from Harry Truman to Ronald W. Reagan. He also worked for the Omaha World-Herald, the Milwaukee Journal in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Since 1968, he resided in Cheyenne, where he was on the staff of Wyoming Wildlife magazine, and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. He served as the executive director of the Wyoming Bicentennial Commission until 1976. He also was on the staff of the Wyoming State Museum<ref name=obit/> Personal and family life Hall was a member of the historic on Capitol Avenue in downtown Cheyenne. His wife, the former Michela "Mickey" Zaccone, died in 2009. Hall died in Cheyenne at the age of eighty-one. He is survived by five children, David C. Hall (wife Mary), Steven M. Hall (wife Cindy Madsen), and Kerry Patrick Hall (wife Pam), all of Cheyenne, Laurel VanMaren (husband David) of Fort Collins, Colorado, and Shelly Schroff of Laramie, Wyoming, fourteen grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/> 
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