13 Facts About Fred Ball

Frederick Henry Ball was an American movie studio executive and younger brother of Lucille Ball.

Fred Ball grew up in a Baptist family; his father was of English and Scottish descent.

Fred Ball's mother was of French, Irish and English descent.

Fred Ball's father was a telephone lineman for the Bell Telephone Company, and his mother was a concert pianist.

Fred Ball's father contracted typhoid fever while DeDe Ball was pregnant with Fred, and died in February 1915.

Fred Ball often whittled toys and made doll furniture for his grandchildren.

Fred Ball thought of Mr Hunt as his father ; it was his grandfather who became a surrogate father to him through most of his childhood.

In 1927, a neighborhood child, Warner Erikson, was paralyzed by a shot accidentally fired from a gun Fred Ball's grandfather had given him for his birthday.

Fred Ball left Jamestown, along with his mother and grandfather, to join his sister in California in the 1930s, working as a page boy at Cafe Trocadero.

Fred Ball was the road manager for Desi Arnaz's band in the 1940s and 1950s.

Fred Ball was a real estate agent and broker in Arizona.

Fred Ball died of natural causes in Cottonwood, Arizona, on February 5,2007, at the age of 91.

Fred Ball was cremated and buried in the Hunt family plot at Lake View Cemetery in Jamestown, New York, where his parents, Henry and Desiree Ball, his sister, Lucille Ball, and his grandparents are buried.