WILMA DEAN ELLIS

She was born April 3, 1921, South of Wheaton in Barry County to Audie and Daisy (Creason) Harrell. She was a homemaker. She married Lemmie C. Ellis on Nov. 19, 1938, in Washburn. He preceded her in death on May 16, 2004. She was a member of the Ridgley Assembly of God Church.

She was preceded in death by: her husband, Lemmie C. Ellis; three brothers: Mack Harrell, Woodrow Harrell and Homer Harrell.

Survivors include: one son, Carl Ellis and his wife, Carolyn, of Fairview; one daughter, Shirley Sailsbury, of Cassville; three brothers, Lennis Harrell and his wife, Vaye, of Rocky Comfort, Don Harrell, of Idaho and Willis Harrell and his wife, Colleen, of Rocky Comfort; three sisters, Twyla Stanley, of Exeter, Delma Ellis and her husband, Loyd, of Washburn and Doris Mahurin, of Rocky Comfort; five grandchildren; and 17 great-grand-children.

Services were held Tuesday, at the Wheaton Funeral Home in Wheaton.