Obituary from the Fresno Bee Republican 6/15/1964:
Albert Balch, Retired Fresno Principal, Dies
Funeral services for Albert Eugene Balch, 91, of Santa Barbara, a retired Fresno school principal, will be held tomorrow in the coast city.
Balch, who left Fresno when he retired in 1937, died yesterday in a rest
home in Santa Barbara. He had been living in recent years with his daughter, . .. .
A native of Elmdale, Kan., Balch came to Fresno in 1883. He began his teaching career in a one room school house in Coalinga in 1897. He taught in the Centerville School and the old Fresno Colony School in the early 1900s and served as a consultant to the Fresno County schools superintendent.
From about 1920 to his retirement Balch was principal at the Washington Junior High School and then at the Longfellow Junior High School.
Balch was married twice. His first wife, the former Mary Purcell of Fresno, died in 1930. His second wife, Cidney Dawson, a member of an early day Hanford, Kings County, family died last August.
In Fresno, he was a member for 50 years of the Las Palmas Masonic Lodge and the Fresno Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
The daughter, . . . , and two granddaughters are the only survivors.
Services will be conducted at 3 PM tomorrow in the Welch and Ryce Mortuary in Santa Barbara. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery.
Albert Balch, Retired Fresno Principal, Dies
Funeral services for Albert Eugene Balch, 91, of Santa Barbara, a retired Fresno school principal, will be held tomorrow in the coast city.
Balch, who left Fresno when he retired in 1937, died yesterday in a rest
home in Santa Barbara. He had been living in recent years with his daughter, . .. .
A native of Elmdale, Kan., Balch came to Fresno in 1883. He began his teaching career in a one room school house in Coalinga in 1897. He taught in the Centerville School and the old Fresno Colony School in the early 1900s and served as a consultant to the Fresno County schools superintendent.
From about 1920 to his retirement Balch was principal at the Washington Junior High School and then at the Longfellow Junior High School.
Balch was married twice. His first wife, the former Mary Purcell of Fresno, died in 1930. His second wife, Cidney Dawson, a member of an early day Hanford, Kings County, family died last August.
In Fresno, he was a member for 50 years of the Las Palmas Masonic Lodge and the Fresno Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
The daughter, . . . , and two granddaughters are the only survivors.
Services will be conducted at 3 PM tomorrow in the Welch and Ryce Mortuary in Santa Barbara. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery.
Obituary from the Fresno Bee Republican 6/15/1964:
Albert Balch, Retired Fresno Principal, Dies
Funeral services for Albert Eugene Balch, 91, of Santa Barbara, a retired Fresno school principal, will be held tomorrow in the coast city.
Balch, who left Fresno when he retired in 1937, died yesterday in a rest
home in Santa Barbara. He had been living in recent years with his daughter, . .. .
A native of Elmdale, Kan., Balch came to Fresno in 1883. He began his teaching career in a one room school house in Coalinga in 1897. He taught in the Centerville School and the old Fresno Colony School in the early 1900s and served as a consultant to the Fresno County schools superintendent.
From about 1920 to his retirement Balch was principal at the Washington Junior High School and then at the Longfellow Junior High School.
Balch was married twice. His first wife, the former Mary Purcell of Fresno, died in 1930. His second wife, Cidney Dawson, a member of an early day Hanford, Kings County, family died last August.
In Fresno, he was a member for 50 years of the Las Palmas Masonic Lodge and the Fresno Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
The daughter, . . . , and two granddaughters are the only survivors.
Services will be conducted at 3 PM tomorrow in the Welch and Ryce Mortuary in Santa Barbara. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery.
Albert Balch, Retired Fresno Principal, Dies
Funeral services for Albert Eugene Balch, 91, of Santa Barbara, a retired Fresno school principal, will be held tomorrow in the coast city.
Balch, who left Fresno when he retired in 1937, died yesterday in a rest
home in Santa Barbara. He had been living in recent years with his daughter, . .. .
A native of Elmdale, Kan., Balch came to Fresno in 1883. He began his teaching career in a one room school house in Coalinga in 1897. He taught in the Centerville School and the old Fresno Colony School in the early 1900s and served as a consultant to the Fresno County schools superintendent.
From about 1920 to his retirement Balch was principal at the Washington Junior High School and then at the Longfellow Junior High School.
Balch was married twice. His first wife, the former Mary Purcell of Fresno, died in 1930. His second wife, Cidney Dawson, a member of an early day Hanford, Kings County, family died last August.
In Fresno, he was a member for 50 years of the Las Palmas Masonic Lodge and the Fresno Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
The daughter, . . . , and two granddaughters are the only survivors.
Services will be conducted at 3 PM tomorrow in the Welch and Ryce Mortuary in Santa Barbara. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery.
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