Appleton Post-Crescent
January 4, 1976
John Balliet dies at 85 in Florida
Services for John M. Balliet, 85, well-known Appleton bonding agent and insurance salesman and national railroad director, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Mary Catholic Church here.
He died Friday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he moved after his retirement in 1966 from the John M. Balliet Insurance Agency, which he organized in Appleton in 1914.
Balliet was born in the Town of Dale and graduated from Appleton High School in 1907. For the next year he was a school teacher in Freedom.
He was a noted fund raiser and served as a director of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., the Michigan Central Railroad, the Lake Erie & Eastern Railroad and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. He was actively concerned with five reorganization plans formulated for the Missouri Pacific and was a foe of government subsidy to competing forms of transportation.
Railroads were his hobby, and he was instrumental in obtaining a Soo Line steam passenger locomotive for permanent display in Telulah Park in Appleton in 1958.
Balliet began his insurance career in 1914 with fire and auto policies and later branched into surety bonds. He became a general agent in 1920 and was honored in 1955 by 200 friends and business associates on the 40th anniversary of his surety bond writing career. He was similarly honored on this 50th anniversary.
He also was a director of Valley Ready Mixed Concrete Co. of Appleton.
Balliet was a member o St. Mary Catholic Church, the Third Degree and Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus and the Appleton Elks Club.
Survivors include his widow, Vivian Brega Balliet of Fort Lauderdale; a son, Richard S. Balliet of Appleton; two daughters - Ellen Balliet of Fort Lauderdale and Mrs. Donald (Bette) Grefe of Atlanta; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters - Mrs. Karl (Pearl) Schuetter of Appleton and Mrs. Glenn (Ruby) Campbell of Lexington, Ohio; and two brothers - James H. Balliet and Lester A. Balliet, both of Appleton.
Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today and from 9-10:30 a.m. Monday at the Brettschneider-Trettin Funeral Home, where there will be a prayer service at 8 p.m. today.
A memorial has been established for the blind.
January 4, 1976
John Balliet dies at 85 in Florida
Services for John M. Balliet, 85, well-known Appleton bonding agent and insurance salesman and national railroad director, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Mary Catholic Church here.
He died Friday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he moved after his retirement in 1966 from the John M. Balliet Insurance Agency, which he organized in Appleton in 1914.
Balliet was born in the Town of Dale and graduated from Appleton High School in 1907. For the next year he was a school teacher in Freedom.
He was a noted fund raiser and served as a director of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., the Michigan Central Railroad, the Lake Erie & Eastern Railroad and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. He was actively concerned with five reorganization plans formulated for the Missouri Pacific and was a foe of government subsidy to competing forms of transportation.
Railroads were his hobby, and he was instrumental in obtaining a Soo Line steam passenger locomotive for permanent display in Telulah Park in Appleton in 1958.
Balliet began his insurance career in 1914 with fire and auto policies and later branched into surety bonds. He became a general agent in 1920 and was honored in 1955 by 200 friends and business associates on the 40th anniversary of his surety bond writing career. He was similarly honored on this 50th anniversary.
He also was a director of Valley Ready Mixed Concrete Co. of Appleton.
Balliet was a member o St. Mary Catholic Church, the Third Degree and Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus and the Appleton Elks Club.
Survivors include his widow, Vivian Brega Balliet of Fort Lauderdale; a son, Richard S. Balliet of Appleton; two daughters - Ellen Balliet of Fort Lauderdale and Mrs. Donald (Bette) Grefe of Atlanta; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters - Mrs. Karl (Pearl) Schuetter of Appleton and Mrs. Glenn (Ruby) Campbell of Lexington, Ohio; and two brothers - James H. Balliet and Lester A. Balliet, both of Appleton.
Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today and from 9-10:30 a.m. Monday at the Brettschneider-Trettin Funeral Home, where there will be a prayer service at 8 p.m. today.
A memorial has been established for the blind.
Appleton Post-Crescent
January 4, 1976
John Balliet dies at 85 in Florida
Services for John M. Balliet, 85, well-known Appleton bonding agent and insurance salesman and national railroad director, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Mary Catholic Church here.
He died Friday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he moved after his retirement in 1966 from the John M. Balliet Insurance Agency, which he organized in Appleton in 1914.
Balliet was born in the Town of Dale and graduated from Appleton High School in 1907. For the next year he was a school teacher in Freedom.
He was a noted fund raiser and served as a director of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., the Michigan Central Railroad, the Lake Erie & Eastern Railroad and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. He was actively concerned with five reorganization plans formulated for the Missouri Pacific and was a foe of government subsidy to competing forms of transportation.
Railroads were his hobby, and he was instrumental in obtaining a Soo Line steam passenger locomotive for permanent display in Telulah Park in Appleton in 1958.
Balliet began his insurance career in 1914 with fire and auto policies and later branched into surety bonds. He became a general agent in 1920 and was honored in 1955 by 200 friends and business associates on the 40th anniversary of his surety bond writing career. He was similarly honored on this 50th anniversary.
He also was a director of Valley Ready Mixed Concrete Co. of Appleton.
Balliet was a member o St. Mary Catholic Church, the Third Degree and Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus and the Appleton Elks Club.
Survivors include his widow, Vivian Brega Balliet of Fort Lauderdale; a son, Richard S. Balliet of Appleton; two daughters - Ellen Balliet of Fort Lauderdale and Mrs. Donald (Bette) Grefe of Atlanta; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters - Mrs. Karl (Pearl) Schuetter of Appleton and Mrs. Glenn (Ruby) Campbell of Lexington, Ohio; and two brothers - James H. Balliet and Lester A. Balliet, both of Appleton.
Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today and from 9-10:30 a.m. Monday at the Brettschneider-Trettin Funeral Home, where there will be a prayer service at 8 p.m. today.
A memorial has been established for the blind.
January 4, 1976
John Balliet dies at 85 in Florida
Services for John M. Balliet, 85, well-known Appleton bonding agent and insurance salesman and national railroad director, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Mary Catholic Church here.
He died Friday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he moved after his retirement in 1966 from the John M. Balliet Insurance Agency, which he organized in Appleton in 1914.
Balliet was born in the Town of Dale and graduated from Appleton High School in 1907. For the next year he was a school teacher in Freedom.
He was a noted fund raiser and served as a director of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., the Michigan Central Railroad, the Lake Erie & Eastern Railroad and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. He was actively concerned with five reorganization plans formulated for the Missouri Pacific and was a foe of government subsidy to competing forms of transportation.
Railroads were his hobby, and he was instrumental in obtaining a Soo Line steam passenger locomotive for permanent display in Telulah Park in Appleton in 1958.
Balliet began his insurance career in 1914 with fire and auto policies and later branched into surety bonds. He became a general agent in 1920 and was honored in 1955 by 200 friends and business associates on the 40th anniversary of his surety bond writing career. He was similarly honored on this 50th anniversary.
He also was a director of Valley Ready Mixed Concrete Co. of Appleton.
Balliet was a member o St. Mary Catholic Church, the Third Degree and Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus and the Appleton Elks Club.
Survivors include his widow, Vivian Brega Balliet of Fort Lauderdale; a son, Richard S. Balliet of Appleton; two daughters - Ellen Balliet of Fort Lauderdale and Mrs. Donald (Bette) Grefe of Atlanta; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two sisters - Mrs. Karl (Pearl) Schuetter of Appleton and Mrs. Glenn (Ruby) Campbell of Lexington, Ohio; and two brothers - James H. Balliet and Lester A. Balliet, both of Appleton.
Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today and from 9-10:30 a.m. Monday at the Brettschneider-Trettin Funeral Home, where there will be a prayer service at 8 p.m. today.
A memorial has been established for the blind.
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