BALLEW, a long time dentist spent his early years in rural Cherokee, County, Oklahoma. His father and grandmother had Cherokee roll numbers. His education started in a one-room, one-teacher school....view moreBALLEW, a long time dentist spent his early years in rural Cherokee, County, Oklahoma. His father and grandmother had Cherokee roll numbers. His education started in a one-room, one-teacher school. High school and college were at Tahlequah, Oklahoma and the dental surgery degree was at the University of Missouri.view less