Betty Maxine Ballard, 80, of Trumann died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008 at Trumann Health and Rehab in Trumann. She was born in and a lifetime resident of Trumann. She was a retired beautician, former employee of the Singer Company and a member of the First United Pentecostal Church in Trumann.

Mrs. Ballard was preceded in death by her husband, Jack Ballard; one son, Rickie Gene Ballard; a step-son, Jackie Ballard; one sister, Georgia Goodwin; a half-sister, Viola Howell; four brothers, William Horace, Charles Vaden, Riley Vaden and Arlen Vaden and her parents, William Everett and Eva Lena Turrentine Vaden.

Survivors include her daughter-in-law, Clara Sample Ballard of Evening Shade and one brother, Aaron Dean Vaden of Jonesboro.

Funeral services were Wednesday, Feb. 6 in the chapel of Thompson Funeral Home with Rev. Russell Hamm officiating. Private burial followed in the Jonesboro Memorial Park Cemetery in Jonesboro.

An online guest book can be signed at www.thompsonfuneralhome.net