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Frances "Lorene" Ballard
   
Frances "Lorene" Ballard, 70, of Amarillo died Friday, Jan. 18, 2002.
   
Services  will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Rector Funeral Home Chapel, 2800
S. Osage  St., with the Rev. Dale Westbrook, pastor of New Fellowship
Baptist  Church,  officiating.  Burial  will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday in
Memorial Park Cemetery of Vega.
   
Mrs.  Ballard was born in Leedy, Okla., on Jan. 14, 1932. She lived in
Amarillo for the past 50 years. She married Robert Ballard on Oct. 10,
1970, in Amarillo.
   
She  worked  as a waitress at the Blue Front Cafe for nearly 17 years.
She then managed TAC AIR Restaurant for three years before retiring in
1997.  She had been a member of New Fellowship Baptist Church for more
than two years.
   
She  was  a  loving  wife, mother, grandmother and sister. She will be
greatly missed by many friends.
   
She  was preceded in death by a daughter, Vickie Darlene Cantrell; and
a son, Chris Bland Ballard.
   
Survivors  include her husband; two daughters, Judy Blackburn of State
Road,  N.C.,  and Barbara Cooper of Leesburg; a son, Steve Cantrell of
Amarillo;  three  sisters, Doris McCutchan of Dumas, Lucille Romine of
Stephenville  and  Gladys  Weatherford of Dalhart; four grandchildren;
and five great-grandchildren.
   
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
   
The family suggests memorials be to Olivia's Angels in care of Baptist
St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center.
   
Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 20, 2002
   
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