Class of 1970
1970 Maroon Spotlight
Ginger Bales
Chorus 12, Jr. Play.
1970 Graduation EditionPerry Daily Journal
Ginger Louise Bales was born June 14, 1951, in Lindsay, Okla., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Bales, 203 Fir avenue. She attended school in Farmington, N.M., Houston, Texas, Las Morachas, Venezuela, Lindsay, and Woodward before coming to Perry. She was a member of the junior play cast. Art is her favorite subject and reading is her hobby. She plans to enroll at Oklahoma State university and will study commercial art.
Ginger Louise (Bales) Kabel
June 14, 1951 – April 16, 2021
Ginger Louise Kabel of Princeton, Texas, passed away April 16, 2021, at the age of 69.
She was born June 14, 1951, to Robert Isaac and Eleanor Louise Bales in Lindsay, Oklahoma. Ginger attended Perry High School in Perry, Oklahoma, and then went on to attend the University of Oklahoma. She married Terry D. Kabel in 1976.
Ginger had the gift of helping people, which she did through her volunteer work at the Red Cross Organization of Oklahoma. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Oklahoma Chapter. Ginger loved the outdoors and gardening, especially herbs. She had a passion for amphibians, with frogs being her favorite! If you knew Ginger you loved Ginger! She enjoyed weekend trips to the ocean with her late husband, Terry. Ginger loved God, family, and her friends.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Eleanor Bales, and her husband, Terry Kabel.
Ginger is survived by her father, Robert Bales of Princeton, Texas, and his girlfriend, Linda Waddell of McKinney, Texas; sister, Sharon Phillips and husband, Roger of McKinney, Texas; brother, Robert Bales and wife Susan of Park City, Kansas; nephew, Ashley (Andra) Phillips of Dallas, Texas; niece, Alison Phillips Reinke (Jay) of Dallas, Texas; niece, Christina Bales Sporleder (Shannon) of McPherson, Kansas; nephew, Timothy Bales (Rebecca Rousch) of McPherson, Kansas; and great-niece and -nephews, Campbell Phillips and Cooper Phillips of Dallas, Texas, Nathan Reinke, Joshua Reinke, and David Reinke of Dallas Texas, and Joaquin Sporleder, Zane Sporleder, Hayden Strong, and Gwendolyn Bales of McPherson, Kansas.