{"id":14786,"date":"2025-07-26T09:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=14786"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T21:47:49","slug":"michelle-dee-ball-miki-abraham-58-of-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/14786-michelle-dee-ball-miki-abraham-58-of-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Dee (Ball) &#8220;Miki&#8221; Abraham (58) of Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p align=\"center\">Michelle Dee (Ball) \u201cMiki\u201d Abraham, age 58, of Newton, Illinois, passed away at 12:10 AM- Friday July 25, 2025, at Helia Healthcare in Newton, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Services celebrating Miki\u2019s, life will be held at 5:00 PM \u2013 Wednesday, July 30, 2025, at the Meyer Funeral Home in Newton, Illinois. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 4:00 to 5:00 PM before the service at the funeral home.\u00a0 A private burial will be in the Shiloh Cemetery west of Willow Hill, Illinois.\u00a0 In loving memory of Miki, memorials may be made to the Meyer Funeral Home.\u00a0 The obituary can be viewed and condolences left at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meyerfh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.meyerfh.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1753824415106000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ZhT779dOL5pV89KH8NgG3\">www.meyerfh.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Michelle better known to her family and friends as \u201cMiki\u201d was born on April 6, 1967, in Olney, Illinois, the daughter of Kenneth R. and Leda Mae Bloomer) Ball.\u00a0 She graduated from Newton Community High School with the Class of 1985.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Miki enjoyed learning and furthering her education.\u00a0 She was an avid fan and collected Mickey and Minnie Mouse memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Miki is survived by:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Children -Myra Griffin of Oblong, Illinois and Phillip Abraham of Rushville, Illinois<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Grandchildren \u2013 Rebecca and Evie<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Father \u2013 Kenneth (Carolyn) Ball of Falmouth, Illinois<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sisters \u2013 Pat Baker of Willow Hill, Illinois; Sandy Steinman of Newton, Illinois; Sharon Reynolds of Willow Hill, Illinois; Cheryl Ford of Newton, Illinois; and Kendra (John) Campion of Falmouth, Illinois<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Step-siblings &#8211; Dawn (Gary) Caldwell of Arkansas; Juanita Jayne of Newton, Illinois; James (Felisha) Nail of Falmouth, Illinois; Becky (Mike) Hixon of Willow Hill, Illinois and John (Lisa) Nail of Mattoon, Illinois<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Miki was preceded in death by her mother, son Michael Abraham, siblings Kenneth Staley, Tracy Ball, David Ball and Pamela Worton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle died on Friday, July 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michelle Dee (Ball) &quot;Miki&quot; 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