Zell Carter Ellis
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Zell Ellis
3/30/1909 ~ 3/8/1964
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Miss Zell Ellis killed in car accident Sunday

Funeral services for Miss Zell Carter Ellis, 44, former Spur resident were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in First Methodist Church there. Mr. William McReynolds, pastor, officiated, assisted by Mr. Carl Hudson, Methodist pastor at Miami. Burial was in Spur Cemetery.

Miss Ellis was killed in a two-car accident Sunday at a highway intersection one mile north of San Angelo. She had taught for 12 years in the San Angelo school system and had recently been teaching at San Angelo´s Edison Junior High School.

Mrs. Mildred Mathews Gunn, Fort Worth, was injured in the second car. Miss Ellis was driving alone at the time of the accident.

Survivors are three sisters, Mrs. Rachel Bingham, Spur; Mrs. Agatha Arrington, Miami, and Mrs. Dulaney Davis, Ralls; and two brothers, Harry Ellis, Spur and Dudley Ellis, Truscott.

©Crosbyton Review March 1964

Miss Zell Ellis Buried Tuesday

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the First Methodist Church for Miss Zell Carter Ellis, 54. She was killed instantly in an automobile accident in San Angelo on March 8, 1964.

Church pastor, Rev. William McReynolds officiated, assisted by Rev. Carl Hudson, Miami.

Born in Kent County in 1909, she had resided for the past 12 years in San Angelo. She was a school teacher and had taught previously at Ft. Sumner, NM and at Las Cruces. She was a member of the Methodist Church.

Survivors include two brothers, Dudley Ellis, Truscott, Harry Ellis, Spur, three sisters, Mrs. Agatha Arrington, Miami, Texas, Mrs. Delaney Davis, Ralls; Mrs. Rachael Bingham, Spur.

Burial was in the Spur Cemetery.

©The Texas Spur, May 12, 1964
Submitted by Kay Laster;   from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
Father: William Wilburn ELLIS
Mother: Martha Jane "Jennie" DODSON
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