Stella Luama (Ballard) Hakes (1888-1943)

BALLARD, HAKES, ROBINSON, MCFARLANE, RAIMER, HENNICK

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/30/2014 at 20:30:59

From Ames Milepost July 1943

MRS. RALPH HAKES

Mrs. Ralph Hakes, about 55, died very suddenly at her farm home two miles south of North Grant school Thursday, from the results of a stroke suffered some time during the afternoon.

Mrs. Hakes had prepared and served the family dinner at noon, although she had not been feeling well for some time. When Mr. Hakes returned from the field about 7 p. m., he found her, unconscious, in a chair, and she passed away about an hour later, after a physician had arrived.

Stella Ballard Hakes, daughter of Jordan and Melinda Ballard, was born Nov. 21, 1888, on the farm south of the present R. M. Hakes farm near Shipley.

As a child she lived with her parents and brother and sisters near Shipley, until, following her father's death in 1907, the family moved to Ames in 1909. She was united in marriage to Ralph M. Hakes Feb. 14, 1924, and to this union was born one son, Paul, who graduated from the Nevada high school with the class of 1943.

She leaves to mourn her passing her husband; her son, Paul; a brother, J. R. Ballard of Boone; four sisters, Mrs. Mary Robinson of Ankeny, Mrs. Emma McFarlane of Lambert, Minn., Mrs. Blanch Raimer of Forest City and Mrs. Bertha Hennick of Maxwell,; and a host of other relatives and friends.