An industry affiliate tests out Ford's SYNC connection and entertainment system inside a Ford Fusion at the Consumer Electronics Show, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in Las Vegas. Ford's SYNC connects the car stereo and navigation system to a user's mobile device. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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An industry affiliate tests out Ford's SYNC connection and entertainment system inside a Ford Fusion at the Consumer Electronics Show, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in Las Vegas. Ford's SYNC connects the car stereo and navigation system to a user's mobile device. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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This Jan. 8, 2013 photo released by Starpix shows actress Quvenzhane Wallis, left, and director Benh Zeitlin at the National Board of Review awards gala in New York. Wallis was nominated for an Academy Award on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, for best actress for the film, "Beasts of the Southern Wild". Zeitlin was also nominated for best director. The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 on ABC. (AP Photo/Starpix, Marion Curtis)
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This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Emmanuelle Riva in a scene from "Amour." Riva was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, for her role in “Amour .“ The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 on ABC. (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics)
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This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Emmanuelle Riva in a scene from "Amour." Riva was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, for her role in “Amour .“ The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 on ABC.(AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics)
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FILE - This Jan. 7, 2013 file photo released by Starpix shows French actress Emmanuelle Riva from "Amour", at the New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner at the Crimson Club in New York. Riva was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, for her role in “Amour .“ The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 on ABC. (AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca, file)
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'The Hunger Games' cleans up at People's Choice Awards; Patrick Dempsey's coffee bid is challenged; Adele to perform at the Golden Globes. (Jan. 10)
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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2012 file photo, performer Adele arrives for the Brit Awards 2012 at the O2 Arena in London. Adele is coming to the Golden Globes. The executive producer of the show says the 24-year-old Grammy-winning pop star is set to make her first post-baby appearance at the ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, where she is nominated for original song for the James Bond theme “Skyfall.” (AP Photo/Jonathan Short, File)
Adele Hall, wife of Hallmark chair, dies at age 81
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City civic leader
Adele C. Hall, the wife of
Hallmark Cards Chairman Donald J. Hall, has died. She was 81.
Hall collapsed and died unexpectedly Saturday at a home in Hawaii, Hallmark Cards spokesman Steve Doyal said Monday. Doyal said Hall had just finished breakfast with her husband and "was working on email when she suddenly felt lighted-headed and collapsed."
Hall, born in 1931 in Lincoln, Neb., had been married to her husband for nearly 60 years, the Kansas City-based greeting cards company said.
She was active in several Kansas City organizations, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and was a board chairman of Children's Mercy Hospital and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Hall also held leadership positions on several boards, including the United Negro College Fund, the Points of Light Foundation and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
She was named Kansas Citian of the Year in 1990, becoming the first woman to hold the title. She was also the first woman president of the Heart of America United Way and was a board chairman of Children's Mercy Hospital and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.
"Adele was interested in a broad range of community needs with a special passion for the needs of children," Doyal said in a release. "She was tireless working toward those interests in any capacity needed — as visionary board chairman, energetic champion and catalyst for change, hard-working committee member, dedicated fund-raiser or hands on volunteer."
Funeral arrangements were pending. Hall is survived by her husband, two sons, and several grandchildren.
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