BILLY ELLIS
ADA-Services for Billy Osborne Ellis, 74, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Ray Talbott will officiate. The family will receive friends from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Criswell Funeral Home. A meal will be provided at 12:00 Noon Friday at the Union Hill Baptist Church.
Mr. Ellis died Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at a local hospital. He was born October 16, 1933 at Tupelo, Oklahoma to William Benjamin and Ina Willie Edwards Ellis. He attended Tupelo schools and graduated from Tupelo High School in 1951. He was an American Legion Baseball player.
He married Kathy Stevens in October 1988. Mr. Ellis lived in Modesto, California and was the owner and operator of Bill's Automotive Shop for many years. He moved back to Ada in September 1995.
Survivors include his wife, Kathy Ellis, of the home; a step-daughter, Anna Bauer, Pleasant Hill, California; a step-son, Michael Bauer, Pleasant Hill, California; a daughter, Pam King; two sons, Larry Ellis, and Barry Ellis; several grandchildren and great grandchildren; and a sister, Mariuse Green and husband John, Stillwater.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for Cancer Research, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104-9930.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada