
I got a kick out of Elder Ballard’s expression of gratitude to Sister Packer, at the funeral, for her role in convincing Elder Packer not to call his fellow apostles at 5 AM.
For the link, see here.
That suggests that my experience of getting a really early morning phone call from him wasn’t out of (his) character or unusual:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2015/07/personal-encounters-with-elder-packer-part-3.html