The funeral service for Mr. Wall will be held at McEvoy Funeral Home on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. Burial will follow at Maplewood Cemetery in Paris, TN. Dr. Trent Bullock of First Baptist Church will officiate. Family members will serve as pallbearers. Visitation will be at McEvoy Funeral Home from 4:00-7:00 P.M. Monday, December 1, and after 9:00 A.M. Tuesday prior to the service. Virgil Earl Wall, 86, devoted husband, loving father and dedicated manager and teacher, went to be with his Heavenly Father on November 29, 2014. He was born to the late Marvin Earl Wall and Clara Brigham Wall, in Paris Tenn., on September 21, 1928. He grew up in Paris, attending Robert E. Lee School and graduating from E.W. Grove High School in 1946, when he was co-captain of the football team. He continued his education at Pearl River College in Poplarville, Miss. on a football scholarship earning an associate of arts degree. He then coached basketball at Buchanan High School from 1948 to 1949. He later attended Bethel College and the University of Tennessee at Martin while working. When Holley Carburetor Company of Detroit, Mich. located a manufacturing plant in Paris in 1949, he was the first local employee hired and worked there in management capacities until the plant closed in 1987. He served in the USMC during the Korean War in 1950-51 while on leave from Holley. After returning from the Marines, he married his secretary, the late Virginia Jo Wall (formerly Hurdle) on August 17, 1952 at First Baptist Church in Paris. At Holley he was quickly promoted to production control superintendent, a position he held for decades. He then transferred to Holleys Bowling Green Ky. plant following the closure of the Paris plant until he retired in 1988. After a brief retirement, Virgil was appointed executive director of the Paris-Henry County Chamber of Commerce, serving in that capacity until 1994. Soon after that, he joined the Tennessee Technology Center at Paris as an industry training coordinator. He was a member of First Baptist Church, serving as a deacon and in a number of other capacities. He served on the City of Paris and Henry County Boards of Education. In addition, he was a member and officer of the Jaycees (charter member), Lions Club, Rotary Club, Elks Lodge, Chamber of Commerce and other civic and community organizations. Wall was named Chamber of Commerce "Person of the Year" in 1995 for his service to Paris and Henry County. In 2007 he was inducted into the Henry County Sports Hall of Fame for his lifelong contributions to local sports, including working as a TSSAA basketball and football official for more than 30 years. He is survived by his children, Lisa Wall Jobe of Atlanta, Ga.; Michael (Mary) of Pompano Beach, Fla.; Doug (Annie) of Wilmington, N.C.; Alan (Sheila) of Paris. Also surviving are grandchildren Joshua Jobe of Atlanta, Ga.; Matthew Wall of Pompano Beach, Fla.; Ryan Wall of Aberdeen, Md.; Dillon Wall of Greenville, N.C. and Jody Wall of Asheville, N.C.; and Sarah Beth Wall of Cookeville, Tenn. He was preceded in death by his wife Virginia Jo Hurdle Wall (August 28, 2014) and his brother James Oliver Wall (February24, 2006).