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H. W. BALLOUIoDIES SUDDENLYLPurhelcnarlt;Wsevneeindjfarry Wat3on Ballou, 62, 2415 ( Avenue J. conductor in the employ I fatj of the Santa Fe railroad, died in the Santa Fe hospital here this morning at 4 o’clock. |Death came suddenly due to a heart attack soon after Mr. Ballou had arrived home off one of his regular runs. He was enroote home from the west as conductor of Train No. 10 when he was taken ill near Henrietta, Mo.Mr. Pallou was born in Montrose, September 15, 1876. He lias made his home in Fort Madison since 1926. Prior to that TTme he resided at Marceline and St. Joseph. Mo. Mr. Ballou started railroading in the employ of the ('. B. Q., railroad. He went to work for the Santa Fe about 31 years ago.Mr. Ballou was a member of the O. R. (’. Masonic lodge at Marceline. Mo.. and the Royal Arch Masons, Fort Madison and of the St. Barnabas Episcopal church in Montrose. He was married to Nellie E. Rowe, in New Market, Iowa, December 16, 1903.II1striatingsevMabeicit.ga;hei15Misej19Surviving are his widow; two 0fsons, Harry Gilbert Ballou. Los Angeles, Gal., and William Jasper Ballou, Kansas City, Mo.; two grandchildren. Adelle and Harriett Ballou, Los Angeles: one brother, J. R. Ballou, Ft. Dodge, Iowa: one sister, Mrs. J P. Kennedy, Montrose. and several nieces and nephews.Funeral arrangements are pend-KibnonMiMiMiSilt;Fring. st
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Fort Madison Evening Democrat

Fort Madison, Iowa, US

Wed, Sep 21, 1938

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