Elke Gisa Hall, 75, of Oklahoma City, died Friday, January 9, 2015, in Oklahoma City. The daughter of Paul Konrad Poetsch and Hildegard (Scheiba) Poetsch, she was born December 19, 1939, in Schlochau, Germany. Gisa earned her PhD and served as the Director of Medical Laboratories while living in Hanover, Germany. She met Nathan Charles Hall through mutual friends and they were married three months later on July 29, 1967, in Las Vegas, Nevada. In her spare time, Gisa enjoyed reading, knitting, traveling, and collecting dolls. She loved birds and enjoyed reading and learning about them, watching and feeding them, and, throughout her life, had kept different birds as pets.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Volker G. Poetsch, M.D.

Gisa is survived by her husband, Nathan Charles Hall, of Chickasha; one brother, Dirk F. Poetsch and his wife, Marion, of Berlin, Germany; one brother-in-law, Luther W. Hall, of Oklahoma City; three sisters-in-law, Glenda Poetsch of Hanover, Germany, Mary Alice Ward of Del City, and Ora Nixon of Blanchard; numerous nieces and nephews; and many other relatives and friends.

Funeral service will be at 2:00 PM, Tuesday, January 13, 2015, at the Eisenhour Funeral Home Chapel in Blanchard. Burial will follow in the Blanchard Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Eisenhour Funeral Home of Blanchard. Online obituary and guestbook are available at www.eisenhourfh.com.