Obituary of LLOYD C. ELLIS, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 902 Kilgore Court, Allen, TX, 75013

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  August 12, 1948

Headline:  Rites for L. C. Ellis Held Thurs. at Hurd Cemetery at Manifest

Funeral services for Lloyd C. Ellis, Manifest, were held at 10 a.m., 
Thursday, August 12, at Hurd Cemetery at Manifest.  The Rev. Cripps of the 
Enterprise Baptist Church officiated.

Lloyd Ellis was killed April 21, 1945, on Luzon Island in the Philippines.  
He was in the 37th Infantry Division of the Army.

Ellis was born in Jonesville August 1, 1917, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
John Ellis.

He is survived by his wife, the former Irma Estis, whom he married on May 27, 
1938, one daughter, Georgia Melvin; three brothers, Homer and Guy Ellis and 
John Cruse; and seven sisters, Mesdames Lillie Webb, Corine Reynolds, Rose 
Belle Phillips, Marie Nasif, Henrietta Franklin, Eva Eubanks, and Meta 
Tullos.

Veterans from Harrisonburg served as pallbearers.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Kinner and Stevens Home for 
Funerals.