Elsie Ballew passed away suddenly Monday, April 20, 
1998, at her home in Mangum, Oklahoma, at the age of 68.

     Elsie was born December 6, 1929, in Bovine, Montana,
to George Wriley and Clara (Boothe) Adams. She had worked  
as a grocery cashier, and most recently she had worked at 
the Chemical Dependency Unit in Mangum.

     Elsie married Burney Ballew June 12, 1972, in Claremore,
Oklahoma. He preceded her in death in February of this year. 
Elsie was a joy to all those who knew her.  Her friends at 
the coffee shop will miss her cheerful company.

     Elsie is survived by her children, Rowena Cerra and 
her husband Carmen, of Kansas City, Kansas, and Ramona 
Janeway and her husband Bob, of Shawnee, Oklahoma; 
her stepchildren, Ronald Ballew of Lawton, Oklahoma, 
Donald Ballew, Patricia Jubera, and Richard Ballew,
all of Garland, Texas; two sisters, Mary Jane Melland of 
Langdon, North Dakota, Myrtle Irene Sylvestor of Bakersfield, 
California; six grandchildren and two great-grand-children; 
a nephew, Robert Hudgins of Del City, Oklahoma, a cousin, 
George Adams of Mangum, and a special friend, Pat Govitz, 
also of Mangum.

     Elsie was preceded in death by her husband, Burney Ballew, 
and her parents.