Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries: Doris M. Ballard Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by: Don Raymond The Tri-County News, Friday, June 9, 2000: Doris M. Ballard: Doris M. Ballard, 92, St. Joseph, died May 30, 2000, at a St. Joseph hospital. Born in Stanberry on June 16, 1907, Mrs. Ballard had been a resident of St. Joseph since 1936. She was a former homemaker and a member of the Savannah Avenue Baptist Church in St. Joseph. On May 19, 1929, she married Ed C. Ballard in Troy, KS. He survives at a health care center in St. Joseph. Mrs. Ballard was preceded in death by her parents, Carl Moore and Blanche Moore Stephenson; two brothers, John A. and George A. Moore and two grandchildren. Additional survivors include three sons, John Ballard, Ashland; Gary Ballard, Bel Air, MD. and Lynn Ballard, Greenville, SC.; three daughters, Barbara Rose, Albuquerque, NM.; Marilyn Drannan, St. Joseph and Carolee Frakes, Kansas City; 21 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Funeral services were held June 1 at Gladden-Stamey Funeral Home, St. Joseph, with burial in High Ridge Cemetery, Stanberry. Memorials may be sent to her church.