Obit of Ballard, Walter Thomas - Choctaw County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 13 Mar 2005 Return to Choctaw County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/choctaw/choctaw.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Amarillo Globe News 2 Mar 1997 Ballard, Walter Thomas DUMAS - Walter Thomas Ballard, 87, died Friday, Feb. 28, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Bible Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Clark, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Dumas Cemetery by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle, in Amarillo. Mr. Ballard was born in Boswell, Okla., and had been a resident of Dumas for more than 50 years. He retired in 1974 from the shipping department of Continental Carbon in Sunray. He was a member of Bible Baptist Church. He married Maudie Nell Cole in 1932 at Hollis, Okla. She died in 1986. He also was preceded in death by a son, Tommy Ballard, in 1944. Survivors include three sons, Bill Ballard of Nacogdoches, Bob Ballard of Hedley and Don Ballard of Cedar Park; two sisters, Myrtle Weightman of Dumas and Edna Ballard of Bakersfield, Calif.; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The family will be at 116 Armstrong. The body will be available for viewing Monday from 9 a.m. until service time at the church. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Choctaw County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/choctaw/choctaw.html