Ebony Lovette Hall, 46, was called home by the ancestors following a sudden health event on July 17, 2026.

Born to Rose Marie Hall and Ronald (Ronnie) Brown, Ebony was reared and educated in Arkansas City, Kansas, where she graduated from Arkansas City High School. Following her graduation, Ebony pursued a career in customer service, providing over seventeen (17) years of faithful service to QuikTrip as a store manager.

In 2015, Ebony’s work took her to Atlanta, Georgia, where she would later make her home. Finding joy in service, health, and nature, Ebony sought to further her education, ultimately graduating from the Herbal Academy with certifications in herbalism. To devote more time to her craft, Ebony recently retired from QuikTrip and launched her own naturopathic business, Phoenix Roots, which focused on the healing powers of herbs.

Ebony’s gift for people and connection extended far beyond her professional ambitions. Those who were fortunate enough to know her have emphasized her remarkable ability to be present, often showing up and surprising those dearest to her with a visit or a phone call. From rib-jabbing hellos to shoulder-squishing see-you-laters, Ebony made certain that each of her friends and family knew and felt her love.

Ebony’s zest for life was experienced through road trips and travel adventures around the states, and, more recently, a cruise, ruthlessly beating her nieces and nephews at arcade games, concerts and live music, the color red, cooking old family recipes, curating fly ‘fits, African American culture, flowers (especially roses), herbs, crystals, and gems, and time spent with loved ones.

She will be remembered for her ankle-breaking basketball moves, often observed at Lovie Watson park, the honor, care, and history she preserved for her family’s ancestors, her awe of nature and the spiritual realm, her childlike wonder, the music she would play (and the tunes she couldn’t carry), her gut-busting humor and consequent cackles, and the best homemade pancakes those lucky enough to try have ever had.

“…Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well.”

-Henry Scott Holland, excerpt from a sermon, a piece that deeply resonated with Ebony

Ebony was preceded in death by her mother, Rose Hall, by her maternal grandparents, Claude and Florence Lolar (Godwin), and by her paternal grandparents, Charles H. and Benny R. Brown. She is survived by her father, Ronnie Brown, of Arkansas City, numerous aunts and uncles, her siblings: Ira Lolar of Arkansas City, Brian (Cathy) Lolar of Wichita, Josh Hall of Wichita, Clinton Hall of Arkansas City, Tikola (Shannon) Brown, Ronald (Christa) Brown Jr., Staci Brown of Wichita, her “precious packages”--her beloved nieces and nephews: Shavis Morgan of Denver, CO, Jordan (Jordan) Lolar of Madison, WI, Tevin Lolar of Austin, TX, Matthew McCaleb of Wichita, Kylee Lolar of Wichita, Grayson Lolar of Wichita, Zion Perry of Arkansas City, Clinton Hall Jr. of Arkansas City, Jonathan Hall of Arkansas City, Mia Hall of Arkansas City, and a host of friends and loved ones she considered family.

Services for Ebony will be held on Monday, August 3, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. at the Church of Christ in Arkansas City, KS. A celebration of life will follow services. (Location to be decided)

Following her celebration of life, Ebony will be interred at the Riverview Cemetery in Arkansas City, KS.

Flowers, herbs, and/or crystals may be delivered to the Church of Christ or shared with Ebony’s siblings.

May Ebony rest in power.