Cory Todd Koontz

Family/Spouse: Lori Gunderson. Lori was born in PRIVATE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Cory James Koontz was born in PRIVATE.

Howard married Barbara June Ballard. Barbara (daughter of Lee Roy Ballard and Audrey Verna Winslow) was born in PRIVATE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Barbara Hansen Barbara Glover Barbara Leedahl

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LEE ROY BALLARD's body was donated for medical research and removed from Corpus, TX, to Galveston Medical Schoo, Galveston, TX, following his death.

Daddy was Undisclosed with my sister Blanche and her family in Corpus Christi throughout the last weeks
of his illness, He passed away on October 29, 1956, just three weeks following the birth of my first
son, Steven Howard Koontz, on October 9, 1956.

In his life, he was known to be an excellent hunter and fisherman, frequently being a guide to wealthy people. I remember eating all kinds of wild meat (fish, birds,squirrels, frog legs, etc.) when I was very small. I don't remember much of my small childhood and remember only seeing him once in the ten years I was Undisclosed in Boles Home. I saw him a few more times after I was out of high school but never knew him enough to really have a relationship.

At the time of birth of one of my older brothers, my father was a mechanic in Cisco, Eastland Co., TX.

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Burial
Galveston, TX, Medical School

(Medical):Cirrhosis of liver.

Died:
Carcinomatosis; Carcinoma of lung

Lee married Audrey Verna Winslow on 28 Jul 1920 in San Saba, San Saba County, TX. Audrey (daughter of Henry Walker Winslow, Sr. and Anna Blanche McGill) was born on 8 Sep 1903 in San Saba, San Saba County, TX; died on 12 Dec 1942 in Eastland, Eastland County, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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My mother, AUDREY, passed away at the young age of 38, leaving 7 children, 3 of whom were very young. She died in the Ranger, TX hospital of complications of a hysterectomy. As I remember and have always been told, a nurse there told my older sister that Mother had cancer. The death certificate stated that she had Chronic Myocarditis and acute Nephritis. She was buried beside her mother and
father, and younger brother Jack on the other side, in the San Saba City Cemetery, San Saba, TX.

Records indicate that three out of four in mother's family died from heart disease, and as of 1998, her husband LEE ROY BALLARD and four of their children have died of cancer.

My older sister, Mary Opal (barely 19 years of age) took care of us younger three for almost one year after which she enlisted the help of the Eastland Church of Christ to get us into a Childrens' home. We were taken to Boles Home in Quinlan, Texas, in October 1943, where we grew up and I was there until I graduated high school in 1953. Boles Home is located about 50 miles S.E. of Dallas, TX, on Hiway 34. Following high school, I went to what was then called Abilene Christian College, now Abilene University, in Abilene, TX.

AUDREY was born in San Saba, TX, of parents Blanche McGill and Henry Walker Winslow, Sr., whose ancestors had come to Texas from Missouri, and before that from Orange County Virginia.

I don't remember my mother but my sister Opal says she was a very special mother. She had a hard life, as Lee Ballard was not a good provider. My mother, AUDREY, passed away at the young age of 38, leaving 7 children, 3 of whom were very young. She died in the Ranger, TX hospital of complications of a hysterectomy. As I remember and have always been told, a nurse there told my older sister that Mother had cancer. The death certificate stated that she had Chronic Myocarditis and acute Nephritis. She was buried beside her mother and
father, and younger brother Jack on the other side, in the San Saba City Cemetery, San Saba, TX.

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Burial
City Cemetery, San Saba Co., TX

Alt. Burial
San Saba City Ceme., San Saba Co., TX

(Medical):Contributory cause: Acute Nephrites (This was on the death certificate.) As I remember, she had had a hyste rectomy and died from complications.

Died:
Chronic Myocarditis, Acute Nephritis

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HENRY WALKER WINSLOW, SR., (my Grandfather) died at his home in Cisco, Eastland, TX, and was buried in the family plot in the San Saba City Cemetery, San Saba, San Saba County, TX. He was a butcher (meat cutter) at time of death.

SAN SABA NEWS, p. 4, Thursday, September 6, 1928: "H. Walker Winslow, a native son of San Saba town, died at the family home in Cisco at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning. The body was brought to San Saba and funeral services were held at the Church of Christ Tuesday afternoon. Burial was in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. Rev. Clem W. Hoover, pastor of the Church of Christ, conducted the funeral services in the presence of a large circle of friends and relatives. The pallbearers were W. V. Dean, A. B. Wilson, A. E. Moore, W. A. Smith, and J. G. Holder, and E. M. Scott.

"The deceased was born May 13, 1875. Many years ago, he was married to Miss Blanche Magill of Cherokee and leaves surviving the weeping wife and four children. They are Mr. L. Ballard of Eastland, Mrs. Bob Rose of Brownwood, Walker, Jr., and Jack Winslow at home. There are also three brothers and two sisters: H. N. Winslow, G. P. Winslow, W. W. Winslow, Miss Vollie Winslow of San Saba, and Mrs. J. P. Altizer of Haslet, Texas.

"Walker Winslow was a good man. He was generous and neighborly. He was a good citizen and always took a keen interest in public affairs. He was a member of the Church of Christ and died in a triumphant faith in his redeemer. The floral offering was eloquent token of the esteem in which he was held by those who knew him best. A number of friends from Cisco, accompanied the family for the funeral and burial." (Source: Obituary appeared in the San Saba, TX newspaper)

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Alt. Born May 13, 1874
Marshall, Saline Co., MO

Alt. Died September 04, 1928
Cisco, Eastland Co., TX

Burial September 04, 1928
City Cemetery, San Saba Co., TX

Alt. Burial
San Saba City Ceme., San Saba Co., TX

Alt. Burial
San Saba City Cemetery, San Saba, TX

Name (Facts Pg)
Henry Walker Winslow

(Medical):Contributory: Arterio Sclerosis

Died:
Broncho Pneumonia

Henry married Anna Blanche McGill on 4 Oct 1898 in San Saba, San Saba Co., TX. Anna was born on 19 Feb 1881 in Cherokee, San Saba, TX; died on 4 Sep 1929 in Ranger, Eastland, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Anna Blanche McGill\MaGill

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ANNA BLANCHE MAGILL was the daughter of A.H. (Anton Henry or Henry Anton) MAGILL & MARTHA VANDYKE, and grandmother to Barbara Ballard. She died in Ranger, Eastland County, TX, and was buried by her husband Henry Walker Winslow in San Saba City Cemetery, San Saba, TX. (When Anna's grandfather JOHN HEINRICH MAGEL came to TX from Germany, his name was spelled MAGEL. Over the years, it was McGill and/or MaGill. At the time of Anna's marriage, MAGill appeared on marriage record.)

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Alt. Born February 19, 1881
Cherokee, San Saba Co., TX

Alt. Died September 04, 1929
Eastland Co., TX

Burial
City Cemetery, San Saba Co., TX

Alt. Burial
San Saba City Ceme., San Saba Co., TX