Graveside services for Minnie Alice Ball Reeves were conducted Saturday, Sept. 22 at 2 p.m. at Indian Mound Cemetery in Young County. A visitation was conducted at Morrison Funeral Home in Graham from 1 to 1:30 p.m., and a memorial service was conducted at the First Baptist Church of Mount Vernon, Sunday, at 3 p.m. Sept. 23.

Mrs. Reeves was born in Stephens County on Aug. 30, 1909. She was the eldest of seven children born to Elbert Milton Ball and Eula Hopper Ball. She married G. Truman Reeves on June 20, 1930.

She died Sept. 16 in Mount Vernon.

She started school in Young County, graduated from Abilene High School in 1927, and earned a teaching certificate from North Texas State Teachers College in Denton. She started her teaching career in a three-teacher school in Tonk Valley, south of Graham. Mrs. Reeves and her husband worked at schools at Imperial and McCamey until he began working for the State Department during World War II. She taught and worked as a librarian at a technical library during this time. The couple returned to Graham in 1964 where she lived until moving to Mount Vernon in 2005. She was a Baptist and taught

Sunday school in each community where she resided.

She is survived by a sister, Pauline Nabors of College Station; a daughter-in-law, Betty Reeves of Plano; a grandson and wife, John and Susan Reeves of Mount Vernon; a granddaughter and husband, Cheryl and Scott Bellamy of Wylie; five great- grandchildren, Sarah Driver, Jacquelyn Reeves, Kaitlyn Reeves, Madison Reeves, and Nikki Bellamy; and two great-great-grandchildren, KayLynn and John Driver.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her daughter Sarah in 1941, her husband in 1988, and her son John in 2006; three brothers, Ray, Graham and Milton Ball, and two sisters, Bula Mae Hoggard and Winona York.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made in Mrs. Reeves’ name to the First Baptist Churches in Graham, Plano  or Mount Vernon, Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, or Buckner Children’s Home.