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Myrtle Eleanor DOUGLAS ELLYSON

Sundown (aka City of Sundown) Cemetery
Hockley County,
Texas

January 20, 1918 - January 20, 2014

*Obituary

The lovely little lady the family all called Nanny went home to be with her Heavenly Father on January 27, 2014, at her home in Brilliant, Alabama.
Services for Eleanor will be held at the First Baptist church in Sundown Texas on February 8th, 2014, under the direction of George Price Funeral Home at 11 am with visitation at 10 am. Burial will follow in the Sundown Cemetery.
Eleanor was born January 20, 1918, in Pierceville, Kansas; the oldest of five children of Clarence and Effie Sewell Douglas. The family lived in Colorado and New Mexico before moving to Texas where she attended school at Coleman and graduated from Lefors High School, Lefors, Texas in 1935.
She married Harry E. Ellyson on September 20, 1936, near Fayetteville, Arkansas. They lived in Kansas before moving to Kermit, Texas; and following Harry's service in the U.S. Army moved to Sundown in 1946. Here they raised three children; were active members of first Baptist Church, the community and the Order of the Eastern Star. In 1989 they moved to Lamesa and were members of Second Baptist Church at the time of Harry's death on March 22, 1993. Eleanor lived in Lubbock and Zavalla before moving to Brilliant, Alabama, in 2012.
Preceding her in death were her husband, parents and three brothers.
She is survived by her daughter, Margaret and husband Charles Leonard of Brilliant Alabama; son Hershel and wife Mary of Zavalla, Texas and Douglas and wife Jeanne of Zavalla, Texas 14 grandchildren (birth and bonus); 35 great grandchildren and 9 great-great grandchildren; a sister, Marcella Hickman of Nexa, Missouri; a sister-in-law Mille Douglas of El Paso, and numerous nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials to Hospice of Northwest Alabama, Inc. P.O. Box 1216, Winfield, AL. 35594.

Contributed on 3/16/21 by texasfindagraver
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Submitted: 3/16/21 • Approved: 3/16/21 • Last Updated: 3/19/21 • R398112-G398111-S3

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