Mrs. Elma Hazel Ballinger, age 100, passed away Sunday, October 24, 2021, at her daughter’s home, under the loving care and comfort of her family and Hospice Compassus.
Funeral services will be 6 PM Tuesday, October 26, 2021, at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Reverend Jeff Collet will officiate. The family will receive visitors 4- 6 PM Tuesday at the funeral home.
Burial will be 12 noon Wednesday, EST time at New Bethel Church Cemetery in Verona, Kentucky.
She was born June 18, 1921, in Berea, Kentucky, to the late Amon B. and Hannah Maud Messer Farris.
She and her husband owned and managed Waltonian Hotel in Walton, Kentucky. They also farmed and raised tobacco and cattle in Vernoa. She worked as a waitress and worked retail at Dillards and the Silk Factory. She did not “retire" until age 85.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband James R. Ballinger, in 1993; a son, Ronald E. Ellison; brothers, Offord Farris, Charles Farris, Braxton Farris, and David Farris; a sister Vincenta Ayers, and her husband Autry.
Survivors include a daughter, Kimberly Mason, and her husband Larry, of Unionville, and a son, James D. Ballinger, of Burlington, Kentucky; sisters in law, Bertha Farris,Carol Farris, and Sallie Farris; grandchildren, Angela Ellison, Rob Ellison, and his wife Angie, John Goff, and his wife Cassie, Doug Ballinger, Mike Ballinger, Elizabeth Pike, Corrine “Cory” Baker, and her husband Travis, and Brian Wilmhoff, and his wife Pat; numerous great grandchildren and several great great grandchildren.
Feldhaus Memorial Chapel is assisting the family with the arrangements
