Service: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, Stacy-Lewis Home for Funeral and Cremation Services in Columbus Junction. Visitation: 3-6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, funeral home.

COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa — Donna Marie Ball, 77, Nichols, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009 at the Colonial Manor Care Center in Columbus Junction of a sudden illness. 

Jim Jenson and Dean Phelps will officiate. 

Casketbearers will be Mark Ball, Tom Huggins, Butch Huggins, Tony Ball, Randy Smith, and Toby Tompkins. 

Burial will be at Letts Cemetery.  Following the committal services, a time of food and fellowship will be held at the Letts Community Center. 

Memorials may be made to Amenity Hospice of Cedar Rapids. Sympathy notes may be left at www.lewisfuneralhomes.com.   

Mrs. Ball was born  Feb. 9, 1932, in Letts, the daughter of Art J. and Marie A. (Holliday) Black.  she married Nelson Eugene Ball June 11, 1950,in Cranston.

She worked at the Catfish Place and Rose Newton's Ceramic Shop in Nichols until retiring in 1996. 

She was a homemaker and a loving mother to her three children. She always had a flower garden and loved tending to it.  She enjoyed spending time with her pets but most of all she loved being with her friends and family.

 She will be dearly missed by her children, Catherine Hoyt of Muscatine, Darrel Ball of Nichols, and Kelly Huggins and husband, Tom of Nichols; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and a sister, Betty Lou Schroeder of Muscatine.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Nelson Ball in 1996; a grandson, Robert Kilburn and a nephew, Gordon Schroeder Jr.