Frederic Ball Obituary

BALL, F.M. Dr. Frederic Macnaughton Ball was born in Charleston, South Carolina on October 31, 1918. He was the son of James Austin Ball, M.D. and Dorothy Thomson Ball of Aberdeen, Scotland. Dr. Ball was married in 1952 to Anne Carroll Marshall of Wilmington, Delaware. He is succeeded by his wife, three sons: F.Macnaughton Ball, Jr. and his wife Ellen of New Orleans, LA., Dr. J. Austin Ball and his wife Cindy of Charleston, and Maynard Marshall Ball and his wife Barbara of McLean, Virginia, and nine grandchildren: Dorothy, Jamie, Austin, Henley, Emily, Marshall, Adele, Claire and David. He was predeceased by his fourth son, David Carroll Ball and by his brother Robert Thomson Ball. Dr. Ball graduated from the College of Charleston in 1939 where he had been president of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and earned a Bachelor of Science degree. He graduated with honors from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1943 as an M.D. and trained as an intern at Wisconsin General Hospital, The University of Wisconsin. He served on active duty in the Medical Corps, U.S.N.R. aboard ships in the Pacific and in Naval hospitals in the States from January 1944 until July 1946, attaining the rank of Lieutenant. Dr. Ball returned to Charleston for post-graduate training in internal medicine at Roper Hospital from 1946-1948 and began private practice in July of 1948. He served on the staffs of Roper, St. Francis, and Baker hospitals until his retirement in 1989 after 40 years. Dr. Ball was the sixth generation doctor to practice in the low country since 1725. Dr. Ball served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Physicians and Surgeons and was president of that organization in 1977. He was a founder of the International Association of Private Doctors (IATROS), inaugurated in Sydney, Australia in 1981. Dr. Ball served on the board of Private Practice Magazine. He was secretary/treasurer of the South Carolina Medical Society for 30 years. He was a member of the St. Cecilia Society, The South Carolina Society, The Widows and Orphans Society, of which he was a past president, the Carolina Yacht Club, The South Carolina Medical Society, The Waring Library Society, The Carolina Art Association, The South Carolina Historical Society and the Charleston Museum. A former member of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, he joined the congregation of Strawberry Chapel, St. James Berkeley, where he served on the vestry. Friends may call at J. HENRY STUHR, INC, DOWNTOWN CHAPEL, Tuesday, May 01, 2007 between five and seven o'clock. The funeral services will be held in the French Huguenot Church, 136 Church Street, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at ten o'clock. The burial in Old St. Andrews Episcopal Churchyard will be private. Memorials may be made to Strawberry Chapel, c/o Clarence M. Condon, 729 Creekside Dr., Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 or to Porter-Gaud School, 300 Albermarle Rd., Charleston, SC 29407 or to Hospice of Charleston, Inc., 3870 Leeds Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405. Visit our guestbook at www.charleston.net/deaths.