GLEN EDWARD "EDDIE" BALL JR of McPherson, KS died November 22, 2018 at the age of 86. He worked as a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Wichita before moving to McPherson in 1945 to work alongside his father, Glen E. Ball at the Ball & Son Funeral Home. They co-owned the firm until Glen passed in 1981, leaving Eddie to operate the business until he sold it in 1996. Eddie remained working part-time at the funeral home for the next several years. A graduate of the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service, he was a member of the Kansas Funeral Directors Association and the National Funeral Directors Association.