Mrs. M. F. Ball (1836-1930)

BALL, GILLETT, BRINK

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 8/23/2008 at 14:51:01

AMES DAILY TRIBUNE-TIMES, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, February 14, 1930.

MRS. M. F. BALL, AGED NAPIER WOMAN, DIES

NAPIER — Mrs. M. F. Ball, 93 years four months and 17 days of age, died at 1:30 o'clock Friday morning at the "home of her daughter, Mrs. Lillian Gillett at Napier, of infirmities resulting from old age. Mrs. Ball was the oldest person in this part of the state and was a pioneer resident of the Napier community.

Funeral services will be held at the Gillett home here Sunday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock and at the Napier Methodist church at 1:30 o'clock. Burial will be in the Ontario cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Ball lived in Boone county on a farm near Napier for over 60 years, Mr. Ball died March
11. 1916. Two daughters died in infancy.

Six sons And two daughters survive. They are: E. B. Ball, F. G. Ball, W. W. Ball. Charles Ball, C. P. Ball. R. W. Ball, and Mrs. Gillett, all of this community, and Mrs. T. E. Brink of Clarence, Ia. Thirteen grandchildren also survive.