Gladys Ellis

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, February 4, 2015

BATESVILLE–Gladys Ellis, 80, died Saturday, January 31, 2015, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi.

Services will be held Saturday, February 7 at 2 p.m. at New Hope M.B. Church in Batesville. Rev. Zannie Leland will officiate. Visitation will be held from 10:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. at Cooley’s Mortuary. Burial will be in New Hope Church Cemetery.

Ellis, born March 26, 1934, in Batesville, to Willie V. Fondren, was a caretaker and a member of Bluff Springs M.B. Church.

Survivors include: one son, Frederick W. Fondren of Mt. Vernon, Ga.; six daughters, Dianne Dorman of Woodbridge, Va., Christy Moore of Coldwater, Kimberly Ellis of Batesville, Pamela Ellis of Madison, Ala., Patty Freeman of Charlotte, N.C. and Kathy Freeman of Bryons Rd., Maryland and Walter Market of Oxford; 26 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.