Harriette Ball
March 15, 1874-April 5, 1946
Niles Daily Star, Friday, April 5, 1946, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
Mrs. Harriette Ball Stricken Suddenly from Heart Attack
Mrs. Harriette May Ball, 72, of 2200 North Fifth street, died Thursday at 8 p.m. in her home. Death came suddenly from a heart attack.
She was born in Ada, March 15, 1874, and came to Niles from Grand Rapids in 1919. She was married to Ezra Ball, Feb. 11, 1897, in Grand Rapids. her husband died in 1927.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Charles Bruycker, Oxford; Mrs. Charles Basso, Sr., 237 Bond street; and Mrs. Frank Saratore, 2200 North Fifth street; two sisters, Mrs. Sadie Davis and Mrs. Jennie Nicholson, both of Grand Rapids, and 11 grandchildren.
Services will be conducted Satruday at 2 p.m. from the Pifer funeral home with the Rev. L. George Beacock of the First Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery. Friends may call at the Pifer funeral home until time of the services.