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Funeral services for Mrs. W.E. Ball were held Thursday morning at 10 a.m. in the Bethel Baptist Church. Rev. J.E. Lee officiated, assisted by Rev. Billy Smith, Lubbock.Mrs. Ball, 63, had been a resident of Dickens County since 1928. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Interment was in Spur Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge.
She is survived by her husband and two daughters, Mrs. Don Ramsey, Spur and Mrs. Darvin Callihan, Odessa and three sons, Floyd, Oddessa, Loyd, Lamesa and Boyd, Brownfield.
Two sisters, Mrs. Emma Harris, Whiteflat, and Mrs. Al Kirby, Sherman survive along with one half-sister, Mrs. Agness Cholson, Ft. Worth and three half-brothers, Jeff Gray, Luther Gray and Gaston May, El Paso.
Pallbearers were R.D. Bostic, C.F. Holloway, J.W. Holloway, Homer Hill, Alvis Bilberry and Harold Karr.
©The Texas Spur, June 4, 1959
Submitted by: Kay Laster; from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
Funeral services for Wiley Everett Ball, 91, were held Thursday, April 29, at 2 p.m. in the Bethel Baptist church with Rev. Billy Smith, Lubbock, former pastor of Soldier Mound, officiating.Mr. Ball died at his home on April 27. Born in Anderson, Missouri in 1890, he married the former Nora Grey in Grayson County in 1913. They moved to Spur in 1928. He was a member of the Bethel Baptist church. His wife died in June of 1959. A daughter, Inez Callihan and a son, Lloyd Ball, both died in 1980.
Survivors include two sons, Floyd Ball, Odessa and Boyd Ball, Casper, Wyoming; a daughter, Daisey Ramsey, Spur; three brothers, W.J. Ball, Spur; Roy Ball, Colorado Springs, Colorado; and J.E. Ball, Sherman; one sister, Mrs. Clara Jacobs, Pottsboro; seven grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
Pallbearers included John F. Moore, Bernice Bilberry, Alvis Bilberry, Robert Hahn, Don Weaver and S.O. Henry.
Burial was in Spur Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
©The Texas Spur, May 6, 1982
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay, transcribed by Kay Laster
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