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 Trelby 'TJ' Ball
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[February
06, 2008]
Trelby James "TJ" Ball, 89, of Lincoln,
died Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, at 4:40 a.m. at Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital after a brief struggle with pneumonia.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Lincoln Christian
Church, with a Masonic service at 7:45. His funeral will be at 10
a.m. Saturday at the church, with Tim Searby officiating.
Burial, with military rites, will be in New Union
Cemetery. |
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Mr. Ball was employed at the Lincoln
post office as a mail carrier and clerk for nearly
30 years. After retiring from the postal service, he
drove a school bus for the Chester-East Lincoln
school district for several years.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II
and the Korean War and retired from the Illinois
National Guard with the rank of major.
He was born Sept. 29, 1918, in Forbes, Mo., to
Albert Franklin and Georgia Wilma Cullen Ball. He
called Lincoln his home, as he lived here most of
his life. He married Dorothy E. Rhoads on May 29,
1943, in Fort Riley, Kan. His loving wife preceded
him in death on July 11, 2005.
He is survived by one son, James L. (and Anita)
Ball of Danville, Calif.; two daughters, Jan (and
Ronald) Betzelberger of Lincoln and Christie (and
Don) Lemme of Lincoln; two brothers, Dale (and
Peggy) Ball of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Robert Ball
of Iberia, Mo.; three sisters, Martina Hertz of
Riverview, Fla., Sandra (and Norman) Zeter of
Albuquerque, N.M., and Barbara (and Wayne) Lolling
of Lincoln; six grandchildren, Carrie Allison of
Albuquerque, N.M., Shaun (and Juliet) Betzelberger
of Holland, Mich., Lori (and Molham) Weir of
Larchmont, N.Y., Leigh (and Mark) Meyering of Napa,
Calif., Katelyn Lemme of Lincoln and Tristan (and
Scott) Lemme-Brosamer of Lincoln; and eight
great-grandchildren.
He was a lifelong member of the First Christian
Church of Lincoln, where he served on the church
board for many years and was chairman of building
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He served on the Logan County Cemetery Board and was
an active member of the Lincoln Kiwanis. He was a
32nd-degree Mason and member of the Scottish Rite at
Lincoln Masonic Lodge 210. He was also a member of
the Ansar Shrine and White Shrine of Jerusalem.
He was a graduate of Lincoln College.
Mr. Ball spent the last five years of his life at
the Lincoln Christian Nursing Home, where he fought
a valiant but losing battle with Lewy body disease,
which is similar to Parkinson's disease.
He will be remembered by all who knew him as a
kind and gentle man with a perpetually cheerful
disposition and a wry sense of humor.
Memorials may be made to The Christian Village,
Lincoln Christian Church or the Appel Scholarship.
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