This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ball, Edginton, Mason, Conger Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GW.2ADE/984 Message Board Post: >From The Fresno Bee Fresno, California (Fresno County) Wednesday, August 15, 1984 KINGSBURG - Services for Joseph Riley Ball, 87, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Kingsburg Cemetery. Mr. Ball died Monday. He was born in Kentucky. He moved tio Dinuba in 1904. He had lived in Kingsburg since 1919. He and his wife operated Ball's Department Store in Kingsburg for 50 years. He was instrumental in the formation of the Kingsburg American Legion Post 191. He was a member of the church, Kingsburg Golf and Country Club, Kingsburg Gun Club, and the Kingsburg Historical Society. Surviving are a son, John Edginton of Berkeley; two brothers, Eugene of Dinuba and Virgil of La Mesa; and two sisters, Etta Mason of Fresno and Annie Conger of Dinuba. The family requests that any remembrance be sent to Kingsburg American Legion Post 191. Creighton Chapel is in charge of arrangements. (Ed. note: Mr. Ball was born May 17, 1897, per the Social Security Death Index)