Mrs. Marie Hamilton Ellis, age 90, of Dickson, died Monday, December 16, 2013. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 from 4 until 8 p.m. and on Thursday from 10 a.m. until service time. Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Hamilton Ellis will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, December 19, 2013 from the chapel of Taylor Funeral Home with Rev. Clark Brown officiating. Interment will follow in Union Cemetery. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Ronald McDonald House or to the charity of your choice.
Mrs. Ellis was born in Dickson County, daughter of the late William Slayden and Eunice Jane Daniel Hamilton. She was married to Lynn Perkins Ellis, who preceded her in death in 1974. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Vernon Hamilton and by her son-in-law, Cloyd Pulley. Marie was a longtime member of Sylvia Baptist Church. She will be missed by her family, her church family and by her many, many friends. The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in her memory to Ronald McDonald House or to the church or charity of your choice.
Survivors include her daughter, Lynette Pulley, of Dickson; two sons, Oneal (Kathleen) Ellis, of Franklin, and Charles (Betty) Ellis, of Dickson; three sisters, Effie Choate, Mary Lee Morgan, and Emogene Burgess, all of Dickson; four grandchildren, Tracy, Jackie, Shelly, and Kevin; nine great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.