Abilene Reporter-News
Abilene TX
Sunday, March 18, 2007 


HASKELL -- Dee Ann Ballard slipped from the bounds of this earth on
Thursday, March 15, 2007, at Haskell Memorial Hospital.

She was born on February 3, 1956 in Haskell, Texas. A 1974 graduate of
Haskell High School, she attended Hardin Simmons University in Abilene,
Texas and for a short time in the early 1980's she worked at the Abilene
Reporter News, leaving only to start a family in 1982. She was a member
of the Presbyterian Church for 40 years. Family was the most important
part of her life. To her children and grandchildren she was devoted,
and will be dearly missed by those closest to her. Being a Mother was
her full time job that seldom left room for anything else, however she
enjoyed writing and found relaxation in music.

In death she was preceded by her grandparents, Alvin and Freddie Ballard
and Charles and Ima Friebele and one brother Charles Ballard.

Survivors are her parents Tommy and Marrianne Ballard of Haskell, Texas,
her children, Justin Leek, Sam Leek and wife Whitney all of Haskell,
Texas and William Brueggerman of Weinert, Texas. Two grandchildren,
Lauryn Crane and Kurt Leek of Haskell, Texas and many others who thought
of her as a Mother and friend.

A graveside service will be held at 2:00 PM Monday March 19, 2007 at
Willow Cemetery, under the direction of Holden McCauley Funeral Home.