Spouse & Children

Tinnie Marie Fortner Don Ellis (-) Ron Ellis (-) Jim Ellis (-) Gary Ellis (-) Pervis Ellis (-)

Brothers & Sisters

Sarah Ann Ellis (1917-1995) Mae Delle Ellis (1920-2004) Vessie Genelle Ellis (1922-2010) Robert Kelsie Ellis (1923-1990) Elmer Randolph Ellis (1926-2005) Odessa Eugene Ellis (1927-2011) Fay Marion Ellis (1929-1995) Illa D. Ellis (1931-1985) Bobby Loyce Ellis (1935-2008) Mary Ellen Ellis (1936-2016)

Evansville Courier & Press (IN) - Monday, January 5, 1998

HARRISBURG, Ill. -- Wilburn Ray Ellis, 79, died Friday afternoon at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville. He was a farmer. He was a World War II Army veteran. He received three Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, a Presidential Unit Medal, three European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medals and the Combat Infantryman Badge. He was a deacon at Little Chapel General Baptist Church, a charter member of the Raleigh Water Board and past director of the Federal Land Bank, St. Louis district. Surviving are his wife, Marie; five sons, Don, Ron, Jim, Gary and Pervis, all of the Harrisburg or Raleigh area; four sisters, Mae Delle Johnson of Corning, Alaska; Genelle Griggs of Harrisburg and Odessa Downing and Mary Ellen Massengill, both of Dexter, Mo.; two brothers, Elmer of Huntington, Tenn., and Bobby of Florida; nine grandchildren, Anthony, Tim, Natalie, Emily, Megan, Houston, Jessica, Cacy and Erin Ellis; and three stepgrandchildren, Paul Hungate and Matt and Jon Ellis. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Little Chapel Church north of Raleigh, with burial in Raleigh Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the church. There will be no visitation at Reed Funeral Home in Harrisburg.²

Sources:

1. Ancestry.com. Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011
2. Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com