Obit of Ballard, William Ira - Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Lovena Norton   (Deceased)  30 May 2005
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Died May 06, 1973

William Ira Ballard, 65, a native of Oklahoma and a resident of Washington
County for over sixty years, died at 9 a.m. Sunday in the Eastern State
Hospital in Vinita where he had been a patient one week.

Mr. Ballard was born in McAlester, Okla. Nov. 20, 1907, and as a child
came to Washington County where he was reared and educated, attending the
Fish Creek and Rice Creek Schools. As ayoung man, Ballard was active in
county maintenance. He was married to Ethel Shoup in 1928 In Nowata and
they made their home in the Bartlesville area where he engaged himself in
ranching and farming until 1942, at which time he was associated with the
National Zinc Company. He retired from National Zinc three years ago due
to ill health and was hospitalized in Bartlesville one week prior to his
being hospitalized in Vinita. He was a member of the Silver Lake Baptist
Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ethel Ballard, of the home address 223 N.
E. Rockwood; four sons, Samuel Ballard, Copan, Ronald L. Ballard, Elkland,
Mo., Billy G. Gallard, Ft. Riley, Kan., and Jess Ballard, Bartlesville,:
two daughters, Mrs. Max (Betty) Powders, Elkland, Mo., and Mrs. Sanford
(Marjorie) Brady, Okesa; two brothers, Sam Ballard, Ochelata and Jess
Ballard, Bartlesville; five sisters, Mrs. Mary Morgan, Bartlesville, Mrs.
Emma Fugate, Barnsdall, Mrs. Myrtle Perry , Independence, Kan., Mrs. Lela
Olson, Bartlesville,; fifteen grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Funeral services for Mr. Ballard will be conducted in the Colonial Chapel
of the Neekamp Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Thursday with the Rev. Ellis
Stephens, minister of the Silver Lake Baptist Church, as the officiant and
interment to be conducted in the Silver Lake Cemetery by the Neekamp
Funeral Home.
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