Carter County TN Archives Obituaries.....Ellis, Harold R September 24, 2005
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Elizabethton Star 9/27/05
Harold R. Ellis 

ABINGDON, Va. -- Harold Ross Ellis, 79, passed away at his residence on 

Saturday, September 24, 2005, after a long Illness. 

Mr. Ellis was born in Carter County, Tenn., and made his home in Elizabethton, 

Tenn., before moving to Abingdon in 1951. He was a graduate of the University 

of Tennessee School of Pharmacy in Memphis, Tenn., and was the owner and 

pharmacist of Ellis Pharmacy and Home Health, where he served the community for 

over 50 years. He had a strong love for his family and this was his priority in 

life. He loved the great outdoors, both hunting and fishing or working on the 

farm and riding his horse on the Virginia Creeper Trail. He had a lifelong love 

for the University of Tennessee football and will always be remembered as a Big 

Orange Fan. 

Mr. Ellis was a former member of the Abingdon Rotary Club, where he received 

the Paul Harris Fellowship Award, and was active in various civic organizations 

in Abingdon. He was a proud member of the United States Marine Corps where he 

served in Guam and Iwo Jima in the Pacific during WWII. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Katherine Ellis; two sons, 

David Scott Ellis and Robert Lynn Ellis; and a granddaughter, Kimberly Ann 

Lewey. 

Survivors include his wife, Yvonne Lowrie Ellis, Abingdon; a daughter, Elaine 

Ellis Cook, Abingdon; a son and daughter-in-law, Doug and Lorie Ellis, 

Abingdon; a sister, Virginia Ellis, Elizabethton, Tenn.; a brother, Phil Ellis, 

Elizabethton, Tenn.; and eight grandchildren, Joshua Ellis, Christopher Ellis, 

Susannah Ellis, Ann Cook, Kathy Cook, Michael Cook, Sarah Ellis and Ross Ellis. 

Funeral services for Mr. Ellis were conducted at 8 p.m. Monday, September 26, 

in the Campbell & Frost Funeral Home Chapel with the Dr. Robert N. Lominack Jr. 

officiating. Graveside services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday, September 

27, in the Knollkreg Memorial Park Cemetery in Abingdon with Full Military 

Honors. Active pallbearers will be Matt Odum, Ben Colbaugh, A.D. Witt, Mike 

Clark, Willard Looney, Jim Hutton, Mack Johnson and Glen Foster. Honorary 

pallbearers will be Dr. Scott Shaffer, Dr. Herman Pinkerton, Dr. David 

Brillhart, Dr. Jim Gardner, Ken Mathews and Dr. Jim Denton. The family received 

friends at Campbell & Frost Funeral Home on Monday from 6 p.m. until the time 

of the service at 8 p.m. The family would like to thank his caregivers, Linda 

and Ernie Richardson, Jessica Ward and Lala Stevens for all of the kindness 

shown to Mr. Ellis. The family asks that expressions of sympathy may be made to 

the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 505 No. Parkway, Box 3704, Memphis, 

TN 38103 or to the Virginia Creeper Trail Association, 128 West Laurel Avenue, 

Damascus, VA 24236 to the Attention of Michael Wright, in memory of Harold Ross 

Ellis. 

Campbell & Frost Funeral Home of Abingdon is serving the family of Harold Ross 

Ellis. 







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