Beulah Marie Ball

Marietta Monitor

March 31, 2000, page 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Beulah Marie Ball, 94, of Falconhead, were at 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 20 in the Callaway-Smith-Cobb Memorial Chapel in Marlow with Rev. Jerry Counch officiating.

Mrs. Ball was born November 3, 1905 in Winfield, Tennessee, the daughter of William Finley and Stella Mae Murphy Duncan. She died March 17, 2000 at Mercy Health Love County, Marietta.

She had attended Chickasha, Blanchard and Minco schools in Oklahoma. A housewife and a member of First Baptist Church in Maude, Mrs. Ball had lived at Lake Humphreys in the Marlow area for 40 years and had lived the past four years at Falconhead. She and Jess Edward Felder were married in Chickasha, and he preceded her in death on August 2, 1953.

Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Faye Colbert of Falconhead, and Ferne and Duwayne Hedgecock of Lawton; a son and daughter-in-law, Jess and Joy Felder of Oklahoma City; a sister, Jewell Anderson of Plano, Texas; brother, Charlie Duncan of Midwest City; nine grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Ball was also preceded in death by a brother, Albert Duncan.

Bearers were Jamie Branscum, Terry Hand, Mike Handley, Brent Edwards, Kent Crow and Carl Gibson. Honorary bearers were Mike Felder, Mark Felder, Bobby Branscum, Chris Hand and Matthew Crow.

Interment was in the Marlow Cemetery under the direction of Callaway-Smith-Cobb Funeral Home.