Mary Elizabeth Gall, a psychiatric social worker and a 46-year resident of Pacific Palisades, died on March 20. She was 94 years old. Gall was active in the League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women and several study groups in the Palisades. She was born Mary Elizabeth Wagner in 1912 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where her father, Charles Philip Wagner, was a leading Spanish scholar at the University of Michigan. She attended Michigan and obtained both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She practiced in the Detroit area until she moved to Santa Monica with her husband, William N. Gall, a tax partner at Ernst & Ernst. The couple moved to the Palisades in 1960, when Mary resumed her social work practice, this time in Inglewood. William died in 1980. Gall was a fan of classical music and local drama productions. She was an avid global traveler, visiting Paris as a child, Moscow in the 1970s, and Spain where she lived for a year with her husband. In Asia she traveled to Nepal, and at age 85 she traveled to Singapore and Thailand. She was active in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Santa Monica. She is survived by her two sons, Pirie of Bethesda, Maryland, and Peter of Leonia, New Jersey; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Also surviving are two nieces, Susan Wagner of Washington, D.C., and Joan Freeman of Pacific Palisades. In lieu of flowers, contributions to the Unitarian Church in Santa Monica or to the Pacific Palisades Library Association would be appreciated.
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