Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 05:22:55 :
Independent Journal
Monday, Nov. 1, 1971
Page 4
W. J. BALL, Former Councilman
Funeral for William J. Ball of San Rafael, a former Corte Madera town councilman, was today in San Rafael. Burial was to be at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Ball, 60, did unexpectedly Friday at his home on Nunan Way.
He was appointed to the Corte Madera Town County in March 1957 after two yeas on the planning commission, but resigned in October of that year to devote more time to his law practice.
He was an admiralty lawyer associated with Thacher, Jones, Casey and Ball of San Francisco.
He received his law degree in 1933 from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.
Ball was born in Oakland, but moved to San Francisco as a child. He moved to Corte Madera in 1951 and to San Rafael 10 years later.
He was a director of the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce from 1938-40 and in 1950 was elected to the Republican Central Committee for San Francisco.
During World War II, he was a major in the Army Transportation Corps. From 1945 to 1946 he was Pacific Coast district counsel for the War Shipping Administration and the United States Maritime Commission.
He was a member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, the Marin County Bar Association, the state bar, the Maritime Law Association of the United States, Association of Interstate Commerce Practitioners, National Defense Transportation Association, The American Legion, the Pacific Traffic Association, Port of San Francisco Propeller Club, San Francisco Commercial Club, the Corte Madera Lions Club and the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco.
Surviving are his wife, Mary Jane; a son, William P. Ball of San Rafael; a daughter, Mrs. William Nagle of San Francisco, and a brother, Robert Ball of Santa Rosa.
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