HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — To thank and honor Shirley LeRoy Ball for his decades of service as a Hill Air Force Base firefighter, he was named an honorary chief Wednesday on his 100th birthday.
“You spend 30 years, a third of your life, and you don’t forget it that easy,” said Ball, who retired after 31 years of service. “I could talk to you for two or three days and tell you different stories about the whole thing.”
Ball has remained a friend of the fire department ever since.
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