BALL, Ronald F. "Roxy": Died 1989

BALL, GRAY, STARR, VERNOSKY, STITES

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Date: 7/20/2024 at 23:12:46

Wednesday rite for Acco head Ball

KEOSAUQUA - The service for Ronald F. "Roxy" Ball, 60, plant manager of Louden Division of Acco Babcock Inc. in Fairfield, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua with the Rev. Bob Patterson officiating. Ball died early Sunday, Oct. 22, 1989, at his rural Keosauqua home.

Burial with Masonic rites and military honors will be in Purdom Cemetery at Keosauqua. Visitation is open at the funeral home, where memorials to the Keosauqua Public Library may be left.

Ball was born Nov. 6, 1928, in Iowa City, the son of Smtih Ronald and Frances Gray Ball. He married Marilyn Starr Jan. 18, 1952, at Fort Hollabird, Md. His parents died in an automobile accident when he was 9 and he was raised in Fairfield by his paternal grandparents, the late Mr. and Mrs. George M. Ball.

He graduated from Fairfield High School, attended Iowa State University of Iowa at Ames and graduated from University of Iowa in Iowa City. he served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps during the Korean Conflict. He started to work for Louden Machinery Company in Fairfield in 1954 and continued with Acco Babcock Inc. He was manager of Industrial Lifters Division of Acco in Salem, Ill., from 1973 to 1983, when he returned to Fairfield as plant manager of Louden Division.

He was a member of the United Methodist church in Salem, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Clinton Lodge AF and AM, both in Fairfield, Scottish Rite Masonic Bodies in Tokyo, Japan, Kaaba Shrine Temple in Davenport and the Audubon Society. He was a voting delegate in Material Handlin Institute Inc., had served on the city council in Salem, as 4th Ward councilman in Fairfield and as finance chairman of his church.

Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Susan Vernosky and Lynn Stites, both of Lake Montezuma, Ariz.
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Card of Thanks

The family of Ronald (Roxy) Ball would like to say "thank you" for the many, many kindnesses extended to us at this time. They have been overwhelming and a great comfort. Thank You.

Susan and Chris Vernosky
Lynn Stites
Marilyn Ball
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Source: "Scrapbook 1989 - 1990", Pg. 573,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA

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