NAME: MILDRED ELWYN (BAYLESS) ELLIS, AGE 83, A LONGTIME ATOKA AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: SEPTEMBER 8, 1918 AT ASHLAND, OKLAHOMA TO JAMES EVERETT AND GRACIE MAE (SMITH) BAYLESS. PASSED AWAY: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2001 AT ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 83 YEARS 0 MONTHS AND 26 DAYS. EDUCATION: ATTENDED GRADE SCHOOL AT ASHLAND AND GRADUATED FIRST IN HER CLASS FROM WILBURTON EASTERN IN 1938 AND FROM SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY IN DURANT IN 1956. MARRIED: RALPH DUKE ELLIS ON JUNE 3, 1939 AT MCKINNEY, TX. OCCUPATION: TAUGHT SCHOOL AT PEACEABLE NEAR MCALESTER IN 1936, TAUGHT AT ASHLAND IN 1945 AND 1946 AND AT STRINGTOWN FROM 1957 TO 1980. MILDRED ALSO SERVED AS TREASURER FOR THE OKLAHOMA HIGHWAY 43 ASSOCIATION AND TREASURER FOR THE CITY OF STRINGTOWN. CHURCH AFFILIATIONS: MILDRED WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF MCGEE VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE PI-OMEGA PI HONORARY FRATERNITY, EASTERN STAR CHAPTER #307 IN STRINGTOWN, SERVED AS PAST PRESIDENT OF THE ATOKA COUNTY RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, AND PAST PRESIDENT OF DELTA KAPPA GAMMA SOCIETY. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF DAUGHTERS OF THE ALAMO. SURVIVED BY HUSBAND: DUKE ELLIS OF THEIR HOME IN ATOKA, OK. SON: GEORGE PERRY ELLIS AND WIFE MARY KATHRYN OF PITTSBURG, OK. GRANDDAUGHTERS: KATHY JO (ELLIS) STIPE AND HUSBAND PHILLIP OF MCALESTER, OK. CINDY KAY (ELLIS) HESS AND HUSBAND LANCE OF PITTSBURG, OK. GRANDSON: JOHNNY RAY ELLIS OF PITTSBURG, OK. GREAT GRANDSON: JAMES PHILLIP STIPE OF MCALESTER, OK. SISTERS-IN-LAW: SELENA (SPEAR) BAYLESS OF HAILEYVILLE, OK. HELENE BAYLESS OF WABASH, IN. NEPHEWS: JIM BAYLESS AND WIFE JEANNIE OF ABILENE, TX. TOMAS GEORGE BAYLESS AND WIFE JANICE OF OKLAHOMA CITY. NIECE: SUSIE (BAYLESS) BEAMER &AND HUSBAND DICK OF WABASH, IN. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY SON: JOHN RALPH JOHNNY ELLIS ON APRIL 1, 1946. PARENTS: JIM AND GRACIE MAE BAYLESS. INFANT SISTER. BROTHERS: THOMAS MARVIN, CLOVIS, JAMES HARLON, AND L. GEORGE BAYLESS.

DATE OF SERVICES: MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2001 AT 10:00 AM. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: OAK HILL CEMETERY ~ MCALESTER, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. LOYD THOMPSON. ASSISTING: REV. BARTT BRADFORD. CASKETBEARERS: JOHNNY HARRIS, TONY POTTS, GARY MCDONALD, BILL POTTS, JACK BACON, BUSTER HARRIS, SONNY RICHARDS, MIKE KELLOGG. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: ROY TONY, HARLEY JINKINS, RON TISDALE, PAUL MULLINS, RON GILLENTINE, CHARLES BOLES, CHARLES MASON, RICHARD HELLEMAN, TERRELL SNOW, RUSTY MANION