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{{Infobox Biography
| subject_name =Braden Ball
| image_name =
| image_size =
| image_caption =
| date_of_birth =[[October 1]], [[1911]]
| place_of_birth =Newport News, VA
| date_of_death =[[January 21]], [[2006]]
| place_of_death =Pensacola
| occupation =Newspaper publisher
| religion =
| spouse =[[Theda Ball|Theda Sims Ball]]
| parents =
| children =[[Suzanne Parkhurst|Suzanne]], [[Kirk Ball|Kirk]], [[Roger Ball|Roger]]
}}
'''Braden Lee Ball''' ([[1911]]-[[2006]]) was publisher of the ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]'' from [[1942]] until [[1976]].
Born [[October 1]], [[1911]] in Newport News, VA, Ball moved to Pensacola as a boy. He filed his first news story at age ten, about a ship wreck, and joined the ''News-Journal'' (then operated by [[John H. Perry]] as both the ''[[Pensacola Daily News]]'' and the ''[[Pensacola Journal]]'') as an advertising salesman.
In [[1940]] he married [[Theda Ball|Theda Sims]], with whom he had three children: [[Suzanne Parkhurst|Suzanne]], [[Kirk Ball|Kirk]] and [[Roger Ball|Roger]].
He became business manager and eventually manager of the ''[[Panama City News-Herald]]'', and in [[1942]] became publisher of the ''News-Journal''. During this time he began what is now the ''[[Northwest Florida Daily News]]'' in [[Fort Walton Beach]]. He was also president and board chairman of the [[Florida National Bank]] in Pensacola and director of both the [[St. Joe Paper Company]] and the [[Edward Ball Wildlife Foundation]].
Ball was interested in the promotion and growth of Florida and the Pensacola area. His efforts helped bring the first four-lane highway to the Panhandle, and he helped select the site for the [[University of West Florida]].
He died at age 94 on [[January 21]], [[2006]].
[[Category:Newspaper executives|Ball, Braden]] [[Category:Rotary Paul Harris Fellows|Ball, Braden]]
| subject_name =Braden Ball
| image_name =
| image_size =
| image_caption =
| date_of_birth =[[October 1]], [[1911]]
| place_of_birth =Newport News, VA
| date_of_death =[[January 21]], [[2006]]
| place_of_death =Pensacola
| occupation =Newspaper publisher
| religion =
| spouse =[[Theda Ball|Theda Sims Ball]]
| parents =
| children =[[Suzanne Parkhurst|Suzanne]], [[Kirk Ball|Kirk]], [[Roger Ball|Roger]]
}}
'''Braden Lee Ball''' ([[1911]]-[[2006]]) was publisher of the ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]'' from [[1942]] until [[1976]].
Born [[October 1]], [[1911]] in Newport News, VA, Ball moved to Pensacola as a boy. He filed his first news story at age ten, about a ship wreck, and joined the ''News-Journal'' (then operated by [[John H. Perry]] as both the ''[[Pensacola Daily News]]'' and the ''[[Pensacola Journal]]'') as an advertising salesman.
In [[1940]] he married [[Theda Ball|Theda Sims]], with whom he had three children: [[Suzanne Parkhurst|Suzanne]], [[Kirk Ball|Kirk]] and [[Roger Ball|Roger]].
He became business manager and eventually manager of the ''[[Panama City News-Herald]]'', and in [[1942]] became publisher of the ''News-Journal''. During this time he began what is now the ''[[Northwest Florida Daily News]]'' in [[Fort Walton Beach]]. He was also president and board chairman of the [[Florida National Bank]] in Pensacola and director of both the [[St. Joe Paper Company]] and the [[Edward Ball Wildlife Foundation]].
Ball was interested in the promotion and growth of Florida and the Pensacola area. His efforts helped bring the first four-lane highway to the Panhandle, and he helped select the site for the [[University of West Florida]].
He died at age 94 on [[January 21]], [[2006]].
[[Category:Newspaper executives|Ball, Braden]] [[Category:Rotary Paul Harris Fellows|Ball, Braden]]
