Obituaries:  Edwin Frank Ball, Sabine Parish       B-400
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 12, 1981
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Edwin Frank Ball

  Funeral services for Edwin Frank Ball of Many, were held at the
First Baptist Church of Many, on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 2 p.m. The
Rev. Joe Ratcliff, church pastor, officiated.

  Burial was in the Houston National Cemetery in Houston, Tex., on
Tuesday, Nov. 10, under the direction of the Warren Meadows
Funeral Home, following graveside services.

  Pallbearers were Dr. Hollis Bray, Melton Wright Melvin Wright,
John Voorhies, W. E. Worsham, Horace Tomkins, Billy Colston, and
T. E. Britt.

  Mr. Ball died at his Trace Street home at 9 p.m., on Friday,
Nov. 6.

  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ethel Tompkins Ball of Many;
one son, Thomas Edwin Ball of Pettus, Tex.; one stepson, Vernice
C. Wright of Many; three sisters, Lydia V. Freeman of Ramona,
Calif., Ruth McKinnon of Torrence, Calif., and Ruby Montgomery of
Ventura, Calif.; one brother, Marion Lee Ball of Colton, Calif.;
two grandsons; one granddaughter; and two great grandsons.

  Mr. Ball, a former resident of Porter, Tex., was a member of the
Sabine Masonic Lodge No. 411.