Claude Houston Ballard Jr
Military
Correspondence with Yolanda Payne, Audrey and Robert Paschal's daughter.
Object Number - UPL 35384 - Claude Ballard and Doreen Watts, at their engagement party at the Air Base
'Doc' Ballard served with the United States Army Air Forces. He was very good friends with fellow North Carolinian Robert Paschal. Both men married English women from Saffron Walden. Doc married Doreen Watts in 1944 and was best man at the wedding of Robert and Audrey Paschal in October 1945.
Excerpt from Yolanda Payne's letter about her father Robert Paschal:
"Dad was a medical assistant to Doc Ballard who was also from North Carolina, and married Doreen Ballard of Saffron Walden. Doreen now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and would also probably share her story. As Doc’s driver Dad could use the jeep to visit Mom but the jeep always had to be hidden from view. So in the middle of war came love and romance and dances in the Town Hall and the beginning of our family. "
After the war Doc Ballard worked as a 'rating specialist, physician' for the Veterans' Administration. He died in 1960 at the age of 51 from heart failure.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: British
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Service Numbers: 14068489
- Role/Job: Medic's assistant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
- Nationality: British
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
17 December 1908 | His mother's name was Annie Gaskins, his father's Claude Houston Ballard Sr. | |
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Other Best man at Robert and Audrey's wedding |
St Marys Church, Church Path, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1JP, UK | 20 October 1945 | |
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Died |
North Carolina Baptist Hospital, 4610 Country Club Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27104, USA | 19 October 1960 | Aged 51 |
| 3301 Midkiff Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, USA | Exact dates not yet known | ||
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Other Married Doreen S Watts |
Saffron Walden, Saffron Walden, Essex, UK | Exact date not yet known | |
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Buried |
Westview Cemetery, Kinston, NC 28504, USA |
Revisions
Death Certificate issued by the North Carolina State Board of Health in October 1960 via Ancestry.com
Marriages Registered in April, May and June of 1944 via Ancestry records a 'Ballard Claude H' married 'Watts' in Saffron Walden.
In the matching record a 'Watts, Doreen S' married 'Ballard' in Saffron Walden.
Correspondence with Yolanda Payne, Audrey and Robert Paschal's daughter.
