CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Betty Lou Thomason Ellis, 11 Sep 2004
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Betty Lou Thomason Ellis, 75, Gap Creek Road, Elizabethton, died 
Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004, in the Sycamore Shoals Hospital. A native of 
Washington County, she was a daughter of the late Frank L. and Bertha 
Alice Smith Thomason. She had lived on Gap Creek since 1956. Mrs. Ellis 
was a homemaker. She was a member of Zion Baptist Church and was an 
active member of the church choir.

Mrs. Ellis was actively involved in the sick and shut-in ministry and 
the nursing home ministry of the church. She was preceded in death by 
her husband, Bruce A. Ellis, in 1985; by a son, Billy Joe Ellis, who 
was missing in action in 1968 and was declared dead in 1975; one brother, 
Lewis Thomason; and one sister, Ruth Gray.

Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Fred and Edith Ellis 
and Frank and Linnie Ellis, all of Elizabethton; one daughter and 
son-in-law, Brenda and Lee Long, Elizabethton; four brothers, Dayton 
Thomason, Elizabethton, Ed Thomason, Virginia Beach, Va., Troy Thomason, 
Elizabethton, and David Thomason, Columbia, S.C.; two sisters, Alma South 
and Nell Harris, both of Johnson City; seven grandchildren; seven great-
grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted a 8 p.m. Sunday in Memorial Funeral 
Chapel, with the C.W. Snodgrass and Dr. William Duncan officiating. 
Graveside service and interment will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Happy Valley 
Memorial Park. Music will be provided by the Zion Baptist Church Choir. 
Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the funeral home at 
1:30 p.m. Monday, will be Billy Ellis, Phillip Ellis, Tracy Harvey, Adam 
Taylor, Bob Carr and Andy Wilson. The family will receive friends from 
6-8 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home. Friends may also call at the residence. 
For those who prefer, memorials may be made in memory of Mrs. Ellis to the 
POW's-Missing in Action, C/O PNC John Edwards, 889 Randall Road, Niskayuna, 
NY 12309-4815. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 
1:30 p.m. Monday to go to the cemetery. Condolences to the Ellis family 
may be emailed to mfc@chartertn.net. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge 
of the arrangements.


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