CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Odis Ellison, 11 Sep 2000
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Odis Ellison 

  Odis Ellison, 78, 1437 Dry Creek Road, Elizabethton, died Monday, 
September 11, 2000, at Johnson City Medical Center. 
  Mr. Ellison was a native of Carter County and a son of the late Nat 
and Mary Brummitt Ellison. He was also preceded in death by two sisters. 
  Mr. Ellison was a retired mechanic at North American Rayon Corporation, 
having retired in 1975. He was a member of the Lyons Chapel Free Will 
Baptist Church and was a U.S. Army Veteran of World War II. He was a 
former member of the Upper Gap Creek Quartet. 
  Survivors include his wife, Tempie Jay Clark Ellison; two daughters and 
a son-in-law, Doris and G.W. Puckett, Elizabethton, and Glenda Cox, 
Kingsport; a son and daughter-in-law, Odis Ellison Jr. and Kerry Ellison, 
Winchester, Tenn.; two brothers, Ora Ellison (his twin brother), and Roy 
Ellison, both of Hampton; four granddaughters, Jesica Graybeal and her 
husband, Rocky, Shea Ellison, Anna Ellison and Kelly Ellison; four 
grandsons, Joshua Puckett and his wife, Mitzi, Jeremy Puckett, James Cox 
and Jason Cox; and a great-granddaughter, Kirsti Graybeal. Several nieces 
and nephews also survive. 
  Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. 


  ELLISON -- Funeral services for Odis Ellison, 78, 1437 Dry Creek Road, 
Elizabethton, who died Monday, September 11, 2000, will be conducted at 8 
p.m. Wednesday, September 13, at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. C.
A. Howell, the Rev. Allen Simerly and the Rev. Dexter Brumitt officiating. 
The Heavenly Echoes will provide the music. Graveside services and 
interment will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, September 14, in the Lyons Chapel 
Cemetery. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the cemetery 
at 9:50 a.m. Thursday, will be Nathan Ellison, Bobby Ellison, Roger 
Ellison, Eugene Ellison, Gary Whitemore, Wayne Whitemore, Wayne Clark, 
Jed Clark and Jonathan Garrett. Honorary pallbearers will be the men of 
Lyons Chapel and Upper Gap Creek Free Will Baptist Churches. The family 
will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. 
Friends may also call at the residence. Family and friends will assemble 
at the cemetery at 9:50 a.m. Thursday. Memorial Funeral Chapel is in 
charge of arrangements.