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Obituary for Oscar Marion Ball:
Oscar Marion Ball, 84, Pine Knot, died Monday, November 15, 1999, at McCreary County Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Funeral services were 2 p.m. Wednesday, November 17, at Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. Glen Trammell officiating. Burial was in Bethel Cemetery. Masonic services were 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Born January 13, 1915, in the Bethel community, he was the son of the late Rev. Thomas Shelby and Pearlie Stephens Ball.
He served in the U.S. Army's 8th Infantry Division as a staff sergeant during World War II and participated in the battles of Huertghen Forest, Roer River Dams and the Battle of the Bulge.
He was a master Mason in the Orie S. Ware Lodge No. 874 at Stearns; a member of the Kinne-Slaven Post 115 of the American Legion, of the McCreary County Farm Bureau, and the 121st Infantry Regiment Memorial Association.
A Kentucky Colonel and a life long Republican.
He was a concrete/masonry instructor at Pine Knot Job Corps; a member of the Bethel Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, trustee, treasurer, men's Sunday School teacher, bass singer and a founding member of the Bethel Cemetery Fund.
Preceding him in death were his parents, an infant daughter, three brothers, Sherman Ball, Ezbon Ball, and Virgil Ball; and a sister, Mary Ball Hamblin.
Survivors include a son, Ronald Marion Ball, Pine Knot; a brother, Oda Ball, Cincinnati, Ohio; and a sister, Zora Ball Cornett, Standford, Kentucky.
Pine Knot Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.