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North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 3/11/1914

Mrs. Sophia Balling, 71 years old,
wife of Michael Balling of Tonawanda
died at the family home at No. 240
Grove street this morning after a brief
illness. She was born in Germany and
had lived in Tonawanda nearly 50
years. One son, Jacob Balling of Tonawanda,
and nine grandchildren, besid-
es the husband survive. The funeral
will be held from the family home at
8:30 o'clock Saturday morning and
half hour later from the Saint Francis
church on Adam street, the Rev. A. A.
Bachmann officiating. Burial will be
in Saint Francis cemetery.

Sophia married BALLING, Michael about 1875 in Germany. Michael was born in Oct 1850 in Germany; died about Feb 1917 in Tonawanda, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BALLING, Jacob was born about 1877 in Germany; died on 6 May 1926 in Tonawanda, Erie County, NY.