Twenty-one year Bainbridge Island resident, Robert L. Ball, age 83, died Nov. 4 while in Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle.

Bob, as his friends knew him, was born May 14, 1920 in Anderson, Mo. During the Depression era, the family moved to Southern California where Bob graduated from Burbank High School.

During WWII, he worked for Lockheed in Burbank where he met Leona Samuelson, who would become his wife on March 4, 1945.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s they lived in Salem, Ore. where they owned and operated a meat- smoking company. In the 1950s they moved Mariposa, Calif. to the Ball family’s ranch, and Bob worked for the California Department of Forestry. Bob and Leona returned to Southern California in the late 1950s, moving to North Hollywood where Bob worked construction and then for Technicolor as a film technician.

Bob retired in 1982 and they moved to Bainbridge Island.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Leona Ball of Bainbridge Island; five nephews, three nieces; one great-nephew; four great-nieces and great-great nephews and nieces.

There will be a gathering of family and close friends at a later date to celebrate Bob’s life.

Arrangements are under the direction of Kass Funeral Home.