Home builder and founder of Kentucky-based Ball Homes Don Ball passed away on Friday, March 23, 2018 at age 81. Ball was inducted into the Home Builders Association of Lexington’s Hall of Fame in 2012.
“Don Ball was a modern day Horatio Alger. Truly the self-made man,” said Lexington Mayor Jim Gray. “Yet he never lost the common touch and a heart for those less fortunate.” The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin tweeted on Friday night: “Kentucky has lost a business titan, successful innovator and generous supporter of the downtrodden, especially those looking for a second chance in life... Don Ball will be missed by many…”
According to Ball’s obituary, he and his wife formed a nonprofit construction firm, Barkham, through which they undertook a number of charitable construction projects that they built at cost. Among them are Virginia Place, the Hope Center for Women, Chrysalis House apartments, Shepherd’s House and the Hope Center’s dining facility and supportive housing for homeless people suffering from mental illnesses.
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