Nancy Walker Ellis

Many may remember Nancy Walker Ellis as your gym teacher at Kate Griffin.  She passed away on February 7th.  The following is her obituary from Robert Barham Family Funeral Home: http://www.robertbarhamffh.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=1516871

Services for Nancy Walker Ellis will be held Tuesday, February 10, 2015, at 11:30 a.m. in the chapel of Robert Barham Family Funeral Home, with Reverend Wayne Smith officiating. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery, with Robert Barham Family Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. Ellis, age 88, of Collinsville, passed away Saturday, February 7, 2015, at her home.  Mrs. Ellis taught school for 32 years in the Meridian Public School System. She was a longtime member of 15th Avenue Baptist Church. Nancy will be remembered as a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend.

Survivors include her daughters, Nancy Dallas and her husband, Ronnie, and Hattye Drew and her husband, Bill; grandchildren, Jason Watson and his wife, Katie, Dee Dallas, Anna Theriault and her husband, Chad, and Allison Dallas; great-granddaughter, Maggie Watson; nieces, Martha Ann Harris and her husband, Richard, Debbie Baker and her husband, Frank; nephew, Grey Cobb and his wife, Becky.

She was preceded in death by her husband, W.D. Ellis; parents, Harris and Augusta Walker; and brother, Harris A. Walker.

The family requests memorials be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital and 15th Avenue Baptist Church Building Fund.

Pallbearers will be Grey Cobb, Richard Harris, Tommy Hitt, Ralph Severance, Mark McPhail, Jimmy Boatner, and Donald Belvin. Honorary pallbearers will be Bill Jones, Charles Alderman, Billy Harold Smith, Frank Baker, Phillip Price, Rusty Williams and Wade Shirley.

Family and friends may sign the guestbook at robertbarhamffh.com.

Visitation will be held Monday, February 9, from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home and one hour prior to the service on Tuesday.

O God our Father, Creator of all the living,
we entrust to Your gentle care
all those we love who have gone before us;
and have gone to their rest in the hope of rising again. . . .

Eternal rest, grant unto Nancy Walker Ellis,
and let perpetual light shine upon her.
May the souls of the faithful departed
through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.