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Rita Elizabeth Hall of Honolulu, a homemaker and avid diver and swimmer into her mid-80s, died in her sleep July 5.
She was 90.
Born Rita Dever in Philadelphia, she enlisted in the Navy WAVES in World War II and received radio training, with duty in Washington, D.C. After the war she moved to Chicago, where she lived for 25 years and raised four children.
In 1972 the family moved to Honolulu.
Hall found her passion in scuba diving and hit dive sites around the world and made many lifetime friends in the diving world. She was an animal lover who volunteered at the Waikiki Aquarium, where she trained the Hawaiian monk seals.
Military services and burial will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. Aloha attire is requested.
Hall is survived by son Jeff of Honolulu and Seattle, a former editor with The Honolulu Advertiser; daughter Kimm Bates of Illinois; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.