Edith Flowers “Honeybunch” Balla, of Kountze, passed away nine days short of her 89th birthday, at Country Dreams. Funeral service will be at 2:00 P.M. on Monday, November 29, 2004 at Broussard’s, 700 West Saratoga Highway, Kountze, Texas, with burial to follow at Old Hardin Cemetery in Kountze, Reverend Earl Crawford will be officiating. A gathering of family and friends will be today, Sunday, November 28, 2004 from 3:00 P.M. until 6:00 P.M., at the mortuary.
Born and raised in Honey Island, Hardin County, Texas, Edith was a descendant of two pioneer families, Brackin and Flowers. She was the last child (sixteenth) of W.H. “Uncle Hard” Flowers and Cylestine “Aunt Tennie” Bankston Flowers. She was a member of the Honey Island Assembly of God Church, the church her family helped to establish in the early part of the last century.
Edith is preceded in death by her husband of forty-one years, Alex Balla, Jr., whom she married on December 24, 1934 in Jasper County, Texas; her parents, W.H. and Cylestine Flowers and fifteen siblings.
She is survived by her daughters, Shirley Balla Loftin and husband Don of Kountze, Edith “Edie” Balla Gruber and her husband Thomas of Lumberton; sons, A.D. “Sparky” Balla and wife Mollie of Silsbee, Terry L. Balla and wife Sibyel of Silsbee; grandchildren, Donyce Loftin Chapman, Larkin Loftin Jacks, Dale Balla, Blake Balla, Todd Balla, Amber Balla Du Pont, Adam Balla, Bridgette Dodson Wentzel, Blythe Jennings Cox, Karen Blair Jennings; eleven great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild and many, many nieces and nephews.
