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| Ballard, Woodrow W. 150077 |
| Birth: 04/21/1919 Death: 03/01/1949 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: Evergreen (EF-11-04) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/15/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, March 8, 1949, Pg. 9: "The body of Woodrow Wilson Ballard, 29, killed in an explosion on an oil exploration boat off the Louisiana coast, was to arrive here late Tuesday for burial. The funeral, Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, will be held at Brown-Roden Funeral Home. Dr. L. Boyd Reavis of First Baptist church officiating. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery and pallbearers will be Ray Ballard, Raymond Ballard, Alvis Glenn Ballard, Richard McKinney, Eddied Shelby and Curtis Hoover. Ballard born April 21, 1919 at Clardy, son of J. B. and Daisy Jones Ballard, was a four-year Navy veteran of World War II. He was employed by the Sun Oil Company and had lived at Port Neches since 1945. The explosion causing his death and that of two other men occurred in Vermilion Bay, March 1, their bodies not being recovered immediately. Surviving are his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ballard, 410-3rd NW, and these brothers and sisters, Roy Ballard, Port Neches; Mrs. Ben H. Dixon, hector, Ark.; J. B. Ballard, Jr., Tulsa Okla., and Miss Mary Ruth Ballard, Paris." Buried next to Jessie Barnard Ballard Sr. Married Rotha Lee Phillips. See her record. |
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