Published: Thursday, August 5, 2010
Milestones
105th Birthday
Ballard
Charlotte Ballard of Everett plans to celebrate her 105th birthday Sunday.
Her family will celebrate from 2 to 4 p.m. at Emeritus at Seabrook in Everett.
Ballard was born in Cadot, Wis., on Aug. 9, 1905, to John Alexander and Emma Noetzel McGilvray.
When she was a year old, Ballard and her mother left Cadot and moved to Valdez, Alaska, to be with her father who had gone there six months earlier to build a power plant.
Her father felt it was a good idea for her to go to Burbank, Calif., to finish her high school years so she left Valdez when she was 16 and lived with a family who had never had any children. She graduated from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., in 1927.
She came to Seattle in 1928, and met and married her husband, a dentist, named Leland Ballard, in 1931 in Ballard.
They had three children, a son, Leland Ballard Jr. and his wife, Bonnie, of Walla Walla; a daughter, Alta Ballard Anderson and her husband, Bob, of Edmonds; and a son, John Alexander, who died when he was 22 months old. Her husband died in 1966.
Her grandchildren and their spouses are: Connie and Peter Schmidt of Lynnwood; Jennifer Lane of Olympia; Trey Ballard of Blaine; Rory and Annie Elliott of Seattle; Rick Elliott of Seattle; April and Jim Batley of Edmonds; and Marci Elliott and her partner, Carol Harper, of Edmonds. She has two step-grandchildren, Brent and Susan Taylor of Issaquah; and Lisa Lee of New Fairfield, Conn.
Her great-grandchildren are Nathanial and Kayla Schmidt; Cooper, Griffin, Braeden and Kalissa Lane; Charlotte and Rory Gabrielle Batley; Allison and Bradley Taylor; and Michel Lee.
Ballard
Charlotte Ballard of Everett plans to celebrate her 105th birthday Sunday.
Her family will celebrate from 2 to 4 p.m. at Emeritus at Seabrook in Everett.
Ballard was born in Cadot, Wis., on Aug. 9, 1905, to John Alexander and Emma Noetzel McGilvray.
When she was a year old, Ballard and her mother left Cadot and moved to Valdez, Alaska, to be with her father who had gone there six months earlier to build a power plant.
Her father felt it was a good idea for her to go to Burbank, Calif., to finish her high school years so she left Valdez when she was 16 and lived with a family who had never had any children. She graduated from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., in 1927.
She came to Seattle in 1928, and met and married her husband, a dentist, named Leland Ballard, in 1931 in Ballard.
They had three children, a son, Leland Ballard Jr. and his wife, Bonnie, of Walla Walla; a daughter, Alta Ballard Anderson and her husband, Bob, of Edmonds; and a son, John Alexander, who died when he was 22 months old. Her husband died in 1966.
Her grandchildren and their spouses are: Connie and Peter Schmidt of Lynnwood; Jennifer Lane of Olympia; Trey Ballard of Blaine; Rory and Annie Elliott of Seattle; Rick Elliott of Seattle; April and Jim Batley of Edmonds; and Marci Elliott and her partner, Carol Harper, of Edmonds. She has two step-grandchildren, Brent and Susan Taylor of Issaquah; and Lisa Lee of New Fairfield, Conn.
Her great-grandchildren are Nathanial and Kayla Schmidt; Cooper, Griffin, Braeden and Kalissa Lane; Charlotte and Rory Gabrielle Batley; Allison and Bradley Taylor; and Michel Lee.
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