Joan M. Ball, 66, died on Monday, September 7, 2020, shortly after arrival at Jones Memorial Hospital. She was born December 12, in Wellsville NY. She was the daughter of Howard and Dorothy (Goldthwait) Herke. On September 2, 1978 in Wellsville she married Stephen T. Ball who survives.Joan was raised in Scio and was a 1972 graduate of Wellsville High School. She graduated from Alfred State College with an Associate Degree, and Houghton College with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration. She began her career at Key Bank in Wellsville, followed by a position in Accounts Receivable at Dresser-Rand. She then went to Five Star Bank in Warsaw as an auditor, and completed her career at Dresser-Rand Corporation as a buyer, retiring in April of 2020. She was a member of the Mayflower Society, the Old Crows Quilting Group, and the Dresser-Rand Management Club. She was a Premier Award Quilt maker. She loved to travel, camp, host gatherings for family and friends, quilt retreats, and especially spend time with her grandchildren. She hand sewed over 1000 Covid 19 face masks over the last few months.
Surviving, in addition to her husband of 42 years is a son, Bradley H. Ball of Florida, a daughter, Elizabeth A. (Jeremy) Stearns of Alfred Station, five grandchildren, Taylor Hurd, Lucas Stearns, Morgan Ball, Dashel Ball, and Landis Stearns, her mother, Dorothy Herke of Wellsville, a sister, Janet (Terry) Vossler of Butler, PA, a brother-in-law, R. Michael (April) Ball, two sisters-in-law, Barbara (Ball) and Ed Teter, and Teresa (Ball) and Ron Vida, an aunt, Maxine Latham of Belmont, several nieces and nephews, and her beloved dogs Duddley and Lucy.
In addition to her to her father, she was predeceased by her father and mother-in-law, Richard and Patricia Ball, a brother-in-law, Tom Ball, and a nephew, James M. Taylor.
Friends are invited to call on Thursday, September 10, 2020
from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the J. W. Embser Sons Funeral Home Inc., 34 W. State
Street in Wellsville, and on Friday, September 11 from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon at
the Trinity Lutheran Church, 470 N. Main Street in Wellsville. The funeral
(Which will be limited to the NYS COVID protocol.) will follow visitation at
noon on Friday in church with Rev. Dr. Eric D. Ash, Sr. presiding. Burial will
be in Fairlawn Cemetery in Scio. Please consider memorial donations to the
Ladies Aid of Trinity Lutheran Church. To leave online condolences, please
visit www.embserfuneralhome.com.
