7 year Member of the West Sayville Fire Department.
6 year member and Honorary member of Westhampton Beach Fire Department
Adrian Ball News Foreman, Dead
M. Adrian Ball, shop superintendent of The Suffolk County News, died in Southside Hospital in Bay Shore yesterday afternoon of a heart attack. He was stricken while at work in The News office on Candee Avenue in Sayville.
Mr. Ball, who was 49 years old, was given emergency treatment by Dr. David L. MacDonell Jr. and rushed to the hospital at one pm by a Community Ambulance Company crew. He died there an hour and a half later.
The deceased first came to work for this newspaper at the age of 14 in 1928 where he was employed as a shop "devil." He held that job for several years and then went to work as a compositor and advertising solicitor, and later as shop foreman, for The Hampton Chronicle in Westhampton Beach. After serving in the Navy in World War II he returned to The News in 1945 and worked for the Sayville newspaper until his death.
He became shop superintendent in 1952 upon the retirement of Franklin Taber.
He was highly regarded in the newspaper and printing trades as a skilled printer and compositor and was a past president of the Master Printers Association. He was a past commander of Joseph Kovarik Post, American Legion, in Bohemia and was an active member of the West Sayville Fire Department and treasurer of the Hook and Ladder Company.
A resident of Atlantic Avenue in West Sayville, Mr. Ball is survived by his wife, Mabel; two sons, Richard and William, and two daughters, Diane and Sharon, all of West Sayville; two brothers, John Ball of Warwick, R.I., and Gordon Ball of West Sayville, and three sisters, Mrs. Winifred Kovarik and Mrs. Edith Gcrdts of West Sayville, and Mrs. Garnet Stein of Sayville.
Funeral services will be held at two o'clock Saturday afternoon at Raynor's Memorial Chapel in Sayville followed by burial in Union Cemetery in Sayville.
The Suffolk County News., September 05, 1963, Page 1
6 year member and Honorary member of Westhampton Beach Fire Department
Adrian Ball News Foreman, Dead
M. Adrian Ball, shop superintendent of The Suffolk County News, died in Southside Hospital in Bay Shore yesterday afternoon of a heart attack. He was stricken while at work in The News office on Candee Avenue in Sayville.
Mr. Ball, who was 49 years old, was given emergency treatment by Dr. David L. MacDonell Jr. and rushed to the hospital at one pm by a Community Ambulance Company crew. He died there an hour and a half later.
The deceased first came to work for this newspaper at the age of 14 in 1928 where he was employed as a shop "devil." He held that job for several years and then went to work as a compositor and advertising solicitor, and later as shop foreman, for The Hampton Chronicle in Westhampton Beach. After serving in the Navy in World War II he returned to The News in 1945 and worked for the Sayville newspaper until his death.
He became shop superintendent in 1952 upon the retirement of Franklin Taber.
He was highly regarded in the newspaper and printing trades as a skilled printer and compositor and was a past president of the Master Printers Association. He was a past commander of Joseph Kovarik Post, American Legion, in Bohemia and was an active member of the West Sayville Fire Department and treasurer of the Hook and Ladder Company.
A resident of Atlantic Avenue in West Sayville, Mr. Ball is survived by his wife, Mabel; two sons, Richard and William, and two daughters, Diane and Sharon, all of West Sayville; two brothers, John Ball of Warwick, R.I., and Gordon Ball of West Sayville, and three sisters, Mrs. Winifred Kovarik and Mrs. Edith Gcrdts of West Sayville, and Mrs. Garnet Stein of Sayville.
Funeral services will be held at two o'clock Saturday afternoon at Raynor's Memorial Chapel in Sayville followed by burial in Union Cemetery in Sayville.
The Suffolk County News., September 05, 1963, Page 1
7 year Member of the West Sayville Fire Department.
6 year member and Honorary member of Westhampton Beach Fire Department
Adrian Ball News Foreman, Dead
M. Adrian Ball, shop superintendent of The Suffolk County News, died in Southside Hospital in Bay Shore yesterday afternoon of a heart attack. He was stricken while at work in The News office on Candee Avenue in Sayville.
Mr. Ball, who was 49 years old, was given emergency treatment by Dr. David L. MacDonell Jr. and rushed to the hospital at one pm by a Community Ambulance Company crew. He died there an hour and a half later.
The deceased first came to work for this newspaper at the age of 14 in 1928 where he was employed as a shop "devil." He held that job for several years and then went to work as a compositor and advertising solicitor, and later as shop foreman, for The Hampton Chronicle in Westhampton Beach. After serving in the Navy in World War II he returned to The News in 1945 and worked for the Sayville newspaper until his death.
He became shop superintendent in 1952 upon the retirement of Franklin Taber.
He was highly regarded in the newspaper and printing trades as a skilled printer and compositor and was a past president of the Master Printers Association. He was a past commander of Joseph Kovarik Post, American Legion, in Bohemia and was an active member of the West Sayville Fire Department and treasurer of the Hook and Ladder Company.
A resident of Atlantic Avenue in West Sayville, Mr. Ball is survived by his wife, Mabel; two sons, Richard and William, and two daughters, Diane and Sharon, all of West Sayville; two brothers, John Ball of Warwick, R.I., and Gordon Ball of West Sayville, and three sisters, Mrs. Winifred Kovarik and Mrs. Edith Gcrdts of West Sayville, and Mrs. Garnet Stein of Sayville.
Funeral services will be held at two o'clock Saturday afternoon at Raynor's Memorial Chapel in Sayville followed by burial in Union Cemetery in Sayville.
The Suffolk County News., September 05, 1963, Page 1
6 year member and Honorary member of Westhampton Beach Fire Department
Adrian Ball News Foreman, Dead
M. Adrian Ball, shop superintendent of The Suffolk County News, died in Southside Hospital in Bay Shore yesterday afternoon of a heart attack. He was stricken while at work in The News office on Candee Avenue in Sayville.
Mr. Ball, who was 49 years old, was given emergency treatment by Dr. David L. MacDonell Jr. and rushed to the hospital at one pm by a Community Ambulance Company crew. He died there an hour and a half later.
The deceased first came to work for this newspaper at the age of 14 in 1928 where he was employed as a shop "devil." He held that job for several years and then went to work as a compositor and advertising solicitor, and later as shop foreman, for The Hampton Chronicle in Westhampton Beach. After serving in the Navy in World War II he returned to The News in 1945 and worked for the Sayville newspaper until his death.
He became shop superintendent in 1952 upon the retirement of Franklin Taber.
He was highly regarded in the newspaper and printing trades as a skilled printer and compositor and was a past president of the Master Printers Association. He was a past commander of Joseph Kovarik Post, American Legion, in Bohemia and was an active member of the West Sayville Fire Department and treasurer of the Hook and Ladder Company.
A resident of Atlantic Avenue in West Sayville, Mr. Ball is survived by his wife, Mabel; two sons, Richard and William, and two daughters, Diane and Sharon, all of West Sayville; two brothers, John Ball of Warwick, R.I., and Gordon Ball of West Sayville, and three sisters, Mrs. Winifred Kovarik and Mrs. Edith Gcrdts of West Sayville, and Mrs. Garnet Stein of Sayville.
Funeral services will be held at two o'clock Saturday afternoon at Raynor's Memorial Chapel in Sayville followed by burial in Union Cemetery in Sayville.
The Suffolk County News., September 05, 1963, Page 1
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