Graveside service for Ms. Keely Ellen Ballard Adams will be 11 a.m., Saturday,
August 8, 2020, at Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery. Service will be officiated by Rev. Jacob Glasz.
Ms. Adams, 34, of Hattiesburg, passed from this life August 2, 2020, in Metarie, Louisiana.
She was born November 17, 1985 in Natchez, Mississippi, to Kenneth C. Ballard and Miriam Smith Ballard.
She graduated college with a degree in nursing and worked as a Registered Nurse. Keely was a
compassionate soul and truly cared for the people she ministered to. She worked in the Intensive Care Unit
and she also worked as a traveling nurse. Her free time was enjoyed by golfing, swimming,
and attending concerts. She will be missed by those who loved her.
Keely is preceded in death by her maternal grandfather, Lamar smith and her paternal grandparents,
Lillie and Mayo Manuel.
Those who are left to cherish her memory are her parents; her sister, Karly Rose Ballard Dyess and husband,
Ryan as well as a niece, Madison Paige Dyess and nephew, Gabriel Lee Dyess; and grandmother, Mary B. Smith.
She is also survived by her long-time companion, Kevin Roper.
