AVERY COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Alberta Lee Ollis Connell, 15 Jan 2005
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Alberta O. Connell

Alberta Lee Ollis Connell, 81, US Highway 19-E, Newland, N.C. died 
Saturday, Jan. 15, 2005, at her residence.

A native of Avery County, she was a daughter of the late Walter Brownlow and
Bertha Belle Julian Ollis. She was a graduate of the Cranberry High School.
Mrs. Connell had lived in Georgia from 1950 until she returned to Avery County
in 1995. She was a retired medical secretary with the Robins Air Force Base,
Warner Robins, Ga. She was a member of the Cranberry Baptist Church. Mrs.
Connell was preceded n death by her husband, Elmer Donald Connell, Nov. 20,
1998, by a granddaughter, Eliza Lee Connell, and two brothers, Ray L. Ollis
and Walter Brownlow Ollis, Jr.

Survivors include four daughters and two sons-in-law, Lou Anne and Woody
Powell of Hawkinsville, Ga., Donna Lee Connell Thomas of Cranberry, Beth Davis
and Amanda and Vincente Garcia, all of Warner Robins, Ga.; one son, Joseph
William "Joe Bill" Connell of Warner Robins, Ga.; 12 grandchildren; eight
great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; five sisters and brothers-in-
law, Ludella O. and Verlon Carter of Gainesville, Ga., Lois O. and Guy Rabb
and Brownnell O. and Gene Allman, all of Cranberry, N.C., Grace O. and Doyle
Calhoun of Newland, N.C., and Jean O. and Gene Honeycutt, Johnson City; two
brothers and two sisters-in-law, Robert J. Ollis and Joseph S. and Glenna
Ollis, all of Marietta, Ga., and Lois M. Ollis, of Kannapolis, N.C.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday in the Cranberry Baptist
Church, with the Rev. David Burnop and Chaplain Brent Price officiating.
Interment will follow in the Cranberry Cemetery. Music will be provided by the
Ollis Family. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the church
at 9:55 a.m. Monday, will be Joe Connell, David Thomas, Archie Thompson, Bucky
Hicks, Brad Turbyfill and Donnie Potter. The body will be moved to the
residence of Joe Ollis, Cranberry, "The Big House" (19 E and Tucker Hollow
Road) at 1 p.m. Sunday where friends may call at any time. To those who
prefer, memorials may be made in memory of Mrs. Connell to the Avery County
Hospice. The body will be moved to the church one hour before services.
Condolences to the Connell family may be emailed to mfc@chartertn.net.
Memorial Funeral Chapel, Elizabethton, is in charge of arrangements.

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