Audra Ballard

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Clifford A. Ballard, birth recorded 11 Dec 1927 in Book 4, p-137. Eastland Co. Courthouse, Eastland, TX.

He worked most of his adult life in the South Texas oilfields.

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Alt. Died October 04, 1988
Corpus Christi, Nueces, TX

Burial
Robstown, Nueces Co., TX

(Medical):Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease & Laennec's Cirrhosis of Liver

Died:
Respiratory failure & Squamos cell carcinoma

Clifford married Pattie Falcon. Pattie was born in PRIVATE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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