Margaret Tinnin Ballard Services for Margaret Tinnin Ballard will be held, Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Robert Barham Family Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverends Bill Webb, Ronnie Ballard, James Ruffin and Dr. Joe Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Forest lawn Cemetery with Robert Barham Family Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Mrs. Ballard, 68, of Meridian died Monday March 28, 2011, at her residence. She was a housewife, a devoted grandmother and a member of Grace Fellowship Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband Reverend Leon Ballard of Meridian, daughter Sherrie Ballard Gaddie and husband Brian of Shreveport, Louisiana, son Ricky Ballard of Meridian, four grandchildren Dillan Gaddie, Nathan Gaddie, Luke Gaddie, and Zachary Ballard, three sisters Mary Wyman, Mary Anita Linton, Mary Helen Smith, and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents Hugh Earl Tinnin and Louise Bagley Tinnin, a brother David Hodgin. The family requests memorial be made to Grace Fellowship Baptist Church or the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Pallbearers will be Dillan Gaddie, Zachary Ballard, Bruce McGee, LaRon Ballard, Richie Hodgins, Ron Mason. Honorary Pallbearers Harley Linton, Tommy Neel, Thomas Clay Williams. Family and friends may sign the online guestbook at www.robertbarhamffh.com Visitation will be Wednesday from 5:00 until 7:00 at the funeral home.
