{"id":9439,"date":"2020-05-27T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2020-05-29T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:47:35","slug":"robert-ball-monona-iowa-may-27-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2020\/05\/robert-ball-monona-iowa-may-27-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Ball, Monona, Iowa, May 27, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-small_image wp-image-9447 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ball-Robert-news-pic-250x326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ball-Robert-news-pic-250x326.jpg 250w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ball-Robert-news-pic-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ball-Robert-news-pic-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ball-Robert-news-pic-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ball-Robert-news-pic-750x977.jpg 750w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ball-Robert-news-pic-400x521.jpg 400w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ball-Robert-news-pic-68x89.jpg 68w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ball-Robert-news-pic.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Robert Charles Ball, 89, of Monona, Iowa died Wednesday, May 27, 2020<\/strong> at Great River Care Center in McGregor, Iowa. Robert was born March 21, 1931 to Charles and Edna (Bruehahn) Ball in Western Iowa.\u00a0 He attended Walnut Grove Country School.<\/p>\n<p>Robert was united in marriage with Betty Suckow. Three children were born to this union.\u00a0 Robert worked as a farmer his entire life, which he loved. He enjoyed hunting, camping, raising hogs and riding motorcycle. Robert valued his time with friends and family, especially his grandchildren,<\/p>\n<p>Surviving Robert are his wife of sixty-nine years, Betty Ball of Monona, Iowa; two children, Laurie Bellinger of Preston, Minnesota and Derald (Julie) Ball of Monona, Iowa; a daughter-in-law, Mary Ball of Monona, Iowa and \u00a0four grandchildren, Nathan Ball, Lee A Ball, Naomi Riggle and Alex Ball; and five great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Robert was preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Edna Ball; son, Allen Ball; and one brother Harold Ball.<\/p>\n<p>A Private Family Service will be held.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Monona, Iowa is assisting the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Charles Ball, 89, of Monona, Iowa died Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at Great River Care Center in McGregor, Iowa. Robert was born March 21, 1931 to Charles and Edna (Bruehahn) Ball in Western Iowa.\u00a0 He attended Walnut Grove Country School. Robert was united in marriage with Betty Suckow. Three children were born to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-ball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9448,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions\/9448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}