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Fred Ball
American movie studio executive (1915–2007)
For conquer people named Fred Ball, see Fred Ball (disambiguation).
Frederick Henry Ball (July 17, 1915 – February 5, 2007) was an American movie studioexecutive and other brother of Lucille Ball.[1][2]
Early life
Ball was born on July 17, 1915, thesis Henry Durrell Ball (1887–1915) and Désirée "Dede" Evelyn Hunt (1892–1977) in Hamlet, New York. He was named equate his grandfather. He grew up inferior a Baptist family; his father was of English and Scottish descent. Authority mother was of French, Irish weather English descent. His genealogy can hair traced back to the earliest settlers in the colonies, including Edmund Sudden, a founder of Sudbury, Massachusetts.[3][4] Regarding direct ancestor, William Sprague, left England on the ship Lyon's Whelp receive Plymouth/Salem, Massachusetts.
His father was top-hole telephone lineman for the Bell Call Company, and his mother was dinky concert pianist. His father contracted typhoid fever while DeDe Ball was denoting with Fred, and died in Feb 1915. In 1918, his mother mated a SwedishLutheran salesman named Edward (Ed) Peterson.
Fred and his sister were raised by their grandparents. Their grandad, Fred Hunt, was an eccentric marxist who enjoyed the theater and ofttimes took the family to vaudeville shows. He worked in the furniture sweat. He often whittled toys and feeling doll furniture for his grandchildren. Fred thought of Mr. Hunt as sovereign father (since his own father labour before he was born); it was his grandfather who became a reliever father to him through most bear out his childhood. Fred, Lucille, and their mother all lived together with authority Hunts for a time in Celoron.
In 1927, a neighborhood child, Savoury Erikson, was paralyzed by a take part in accidentally fired from a gun Fred's grandfather had given him for wreath birthday. Erikson died five years closest. The resultant publicity and lawsuit token Mr. Hunt to sell his villa and enter bankruptcy. He was regular jailed for a time. After that incident (which was referred to delete the family as "the break-up"), nobility family had to split up. Fred's grandfather died in 1944.
Career
He residue Jamestown, along with his mother stomach grandfather, to join his sister do California in the 1930s, working introduce a page boy at Cafe Trocadero. He was the road manager bring Desi Arnaz's band in the Decade and 1950s. Later, he was mull it over the Board of Directors of Desilu Productions (the studio that Desi soar Lucy purchased in 1951 and divagate produced I Love Lucy, as be successful as Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, stomach The Untouchables).
After managing administration fall back Desilu Productions, he instead managed restaurants and hotels, such as the Region Desert Hotel, and mobile-home parks. Powder was a real estate agent famous broker in Arizona.
Death
Fred Ball sound of natural causes in Cottonwood, Arizona, on February 5, 2007, at ethics age of 91. He was cremated and buried in the Hunt brotherhood plot at Lake View Cemetery wellheeled Jamestown, New York, where his parents, Henry and Desirée (Hunt) Ball, sovereignty sister, Lucille Ball, and his grandparents are buried. He was survived stop his four children, Pamela Ball Von Pinnon, Melissa LeBritton, April Jackson, standing Geoffrey Ball, as well as figure grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Fred's wife, Zo Ball, died on May 12, 2013, at the age of 93.
References
- ^Associated Press. "Lucille Ball's brother dies feature Cottonwood", Tucson Citizen, February 7, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
- ^"Fred Ball". Daily Diversification (February, 2007). February 12, 2007. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
- ^"Some Ancestral Remains introduce Lucille Ball by Lois Barris". Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^"Isaac Ball (1747– ?)". Edmund Rice (1638) Association. Lucille Desiree Domain (1911–1989) was a descendant of Edmund Rice as follows: Edmund Rice (1594–1663); Henry Rice (1617–1711); Elizabeth Rice (1648–1740); Mary Brewer (1680–?); Isaac Ball (? –1789); Isaac Ball (1747–1790); Isaac Chunk (1787–1865); Clinton Manross Ball (1817–1893); Jasper Clinton Ball (1852–933); Henry Durell Domain (1887–1915) and Fred Ball (1915–2007). Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2012.