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Johnnie Ellis
A funeral
for Johnnie A. Ellis, 60, of Route 3 Cottondale, who died Thursday night
at Druid City Hospital, will be today at 1:30 p m at the chapel of Hayes
Chapel Funeral Home. Dr. E H. Richards will officiate with burial in
Tuscaloosa Memorial Park and Hayes Chapel directing.
He is
survived by the widow, Mrs. Minnie Ellis, Cottondale, a daughter, Mrs.
Mary Ann Sprain, Tuscaloosa; three sons, Danny Ellis, Andy Ellis, both
of Cottondale, and Bob Ellis, Ft Walton Beach, Fla.; five grandchildren; three sisters. Mrs. Estelle Howard, Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs.
Louise Smelly, Northport, and Mrs. Livia Gooden, Tuscaloosa; five
brothers, Cecil Ellis, David Ellis, Waymond Ellis, all of Tuscaloosa,
Charles Ellis, Cottondale, and Martin Ellis. Columbus, Miss., and other
relatives.
Pallbearers
will be Joe Ellis, Eddie Ellis, John Gooden, Glennis Noland, Leon
Fondren, and Guy McKinley.
Honorary pallbearers will the
employees of B F. Goodrich and friends. Dr. Hoy White, Dr. Albert
Jackson, Dr William Hill, Dr John Burnham, Dr. Omer Haker and Dr.
Maxwell Moody, Jr.
He was a member of the Cottondale
Baptist Church. |
Grave
marker for Johnnie A. Ellis in Tuscaloosa Memorial Park, Tuscaloosa
(Tuscaloosa county), Alabama.
Pfc Ellis was transferred from the 17thg Airborne
Division to Company E, 508th PIR on 23 August 1945. He was
discharged on 8 November 1945.
Johnnie never registered for the draft as he had enlisted in
the Army on 11 March 1939, well before the Selective Training and
Service Act was enacted on 26 September 1940.
His Selective
Service records below reflect an initial filing 11 days following his
discharge date. Doing so meant he was in the system in the
instance of a recall, While such a recall did happen for the
Korean Conflict, Johnnie was well past the maximum conscription age of
26 by that time.
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