Word has been received here of the death of Stuart S. Ball Sr., 78, lawyer and former president of Montgomery Ward & Co. Mr. Ball was a native of the Marshalltown area and son of the late Amos Ball, an executive of Standard Oil of Indiana who began his career with that firm at Toledo, Iowa.
Mr. Ball was a frequent visitor in Marshalltown in past years and as a youngster spent summers here with his aunt's family, the W.B. Wildmans.
He died Wednesday in a Kalamazoo, Mich., hospital after suffering a heart attack. Services were held this Friday in Skokie, Ill.
According to an Associated Press release, Mr. Ball practiced law in Des Moines before joining Montgomery Ward in 1932. He was elected president of the company in 1949 after serving as legal counsel, secretary and vice president under the firm's controversial chairman, Sewell L Avery. (He walked at Avery's side in 1944 when the chairman was carried from company offices by soldiers when the Army seized the firm during a wartime strike.)
He is survived by his widow, two daughters, one son, six grand children and one brother, George W. Ball, a former U.S. undersecretary of state and United Nations envoy.
from Marshalltown IA newspaper Times Republican dated January 21 1983
Mr. Ball was a frequent visitor in Marshalltown in past years and as a youngster spent summers here with his aunt's family, the W.B. Wildmans.
He died Wednesday in a Kalamazoo, Mich., hospital after suffering a heart attack. Services were held this Friday in Skokie, Ill.
According to an Associated Press release, Mr. Ball practiced law in Des Moines before joining Montgomery Ward in 1932. He was elected president of the company in 1949 after serving as legal counsel, secretary and vice president under the firm's controversial chairman, Sewell L Avery. (He walked at Avery's side in 1944 when the chairman was carried from company offices by soldiers when the Army seized the firm during a wartime strike.)
He is survived by his widow, two daughters, one son, six grand children and one brother, George W. Ball, a former U.S. undersecretary of state and United Nations envoy.
from Marshalltown IA newspaper Times Republican dated January 21 1983
Word has been received here of the death of Stuart S. Ball Sr., 78, lawyer and former president of Montgomery Ward & Co. Mr. Ball was a native of the Marshalltown area and son of the late Amos Ball, an executive of Standard Oil of Indiana who began his career with that firm at Toledo, Iowa.
Mr. Ball was a frequent visitor in Marshalltown in past years and as a youngster spent summers here with his aunt's family, the W.B. Wildmans.
He died Wednesday in a Kalamazoo, Mich., hospital after suffering a heart attack. Services were held this Friday in Skokie, Ill.
According to an Associated Press release, Mr. Ball practiced law in Des Moines before joining Montgomery Ward in 1932. He was elected president of the company in 1949 after serving as legal counsel, secretary and vice president under the firm's controversial chairman, Sewell L Avery. (He walked at Avery's side in 1944 when the chairman was carried from company offices by soldiers when the Army seized the firm during a wartime strike.)
He is survived by his widow, two daughters, one son, six grand children and one brother, George W. Ball, a former U.S. undersecretary of state and United Nations envoy.
from Marshalltown IA newspaper Times Republican dated January 21 1983
Mr. Ball was a frequent visitor in Marshalltown in past years and as a youngster spent summers here with his aunt's family, the W.B. Wildmans.
He died Wednesday in a Kalamazoo, Mich., hospital after suffering a heart attack. Services were held this Friday in Skokie, Ill.
According to an Associated Press release, Mr. Ball practiced law in Des Moines before joining Montgomery Ward in 1932. He was elected president of the company in 1949 after serving as legal counsel, secretary and vice president under the firm's controversial chairman, Sewell L Avery. (He walked at Avery's side in 1944 when the chairman was carried from company offices by soldiers when the Army seized the firm during a wartime strike.)
He is survived by his widow, two daughters, one son, six grand children and one brother, George W. Ball, a former U.S. undersecretary of state and United Nations envoy.
from Marshalltown IA newspaper Times Republican dated January 21 1983
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