MIAMI, FL-- DR. ERNEST BEHLING ELLIS died in his home in Miami, FL, on Sunday,
July 15,
2007
Funeral services will be held Thursday, July
19, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. at Lower Three Runs Baptist Church,
Allendale County, SC, with the Rev. Billy Mew officiating. Interment
will follow in the Lower Three Runs Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 10:00 to
11:00 a.m. Thursday at Lower Three Runs Baptist Church.
Dr. Ellis was the son of the late Norman
Douglas and Ramelle Rice Ellis, he was born in a rural farmhouse in
Martin/Millette, SC. He attended Allendale Centralized High School,
graduating in 1937 as valedictorian. He then attended Furman
University in Greenville, SC, graduating magna cum laude. While
there he played saxophone and clarinet for the marching band and
symphony orchestra. Later, he enrolled at the Medical School of
South Carolina in Charleston, finishing in the top ten percent of
his class. After leaving Furman, he joined the Navy serving in World
War II as a lieutenant in the Pacific Theatre, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. He
is listed on the World War II Memorial as LST ship physician/Lt.
j.g. rank.
Dr. Ellis trained as a resident in Internal
Medicine and Cardiology at Memorial Hospital in Richmond, VA, and
Jackson Memorial Hospital and the VA Hospital in Miami. He
maintained a private Internal Medicine and Cardiology practice in
South Miami, FL, from 1955-2001. He was instrumental in the building
of Baptist Hospital in Miami and later served as Chief of Cardiology
at Baptist, Larken and South Miami Hospital. As a well-respected
doctor/diagnostician, he was the oldest doctor on the staff at
Baptist Hospital. Dr. Ellis devoted his life to medicine, practicing
for 61 years, counting his military service. He was still making
house calls and reading cardiograms at age 83.
Dr. Ellis had many talents and
hobbies. He was an avid fisherman, still fishing alone until the age
of 82. He enjoyed water skiing, duck hunting, loved animals
(particularly hunting dogs even though his favorite pet was a cat
named Euripedes), and gardening. He lived a full life, making many
memories that he loved to talk about and enthrall any
listener.
He was formerly married to the
late Mary Godwin Ellis. Dr. Ellis is survived by his children,
Rosamond (Roz) Goudeau (Richard) of Macon, Evelyn Montague Ellis of
Charlotte, NC, and Ernest (Tad) Ellis (Cherie) and grandson, Michael
Walker Creswell of Atlanta, GA. He is survived by his loving wife,
Aliette M. Ellis and her two sons and their wives, Art and Maria
Ruiz and Rene and Grisel Ruiz; grandchildren, Jennifer, Michelle,
Nicole and Kristina Ruiz and great-grandchildren, Veronica Contreras
and Nyasia Ruiz. He is also survived by his brothers, Norman Douglas
Ellis, Jr. of Florence, SC, (Martha), their three daughters and one
son and Francis Earl Ellis, Sr. (Betsey) and their two sons and one
daughter.
Keith Smith Funeral Service, 128
Water Street Allendale, SC. --State, The (Columbia, SC) - July 17,
2007.
-transcribed and contributed by
A. Newell.
CAYCE, SC -FLORIDE STEVENSON WOOD, 91, of Cayce, died Thursday, November 15, 2007. Born
on Thursday, November 19, 1915, in Allendale County, SC, she was a
daughter of the late William Franklin and Carrie Cornelia Williams
Stevenson. She lived there until after graduation from Winthrop when
she taught school in Ninety-Six, SC. There she met and fell in love
with her future husband, Herbert Austin Wood, who preceded her in
death in 1997. They were married and moved to Cayce, where she lived
the rest of her life in the same house except for one year in Ft.
Knox, KY, in 1945, after WW II, and for three years in Cheraw in
1955 to 1958 while her husband was superintendent of schools there.
Mrs. Wood also studied further at Columbia College and the
University of South Carolina.
Floride taught home economics and
science for 24 years in the Brookland-Cayce Schools and later in
Columbia schools. She was a faithful servant of her Lord and her
church. She and her husband were among the group who started Holland
Avenue Baptist Church and served there for many years as Sunday
School Secretary, an adult class Sunday School teacher, and served
on many committees and groups including working with a Big A Bible
Club for young children. She and her husband founded the first
mission of the church at River Bluff.
Her many other activities include
PTA (past president), Cayce Women's Club, Delta Kappa Gamma (an
honorary international Society for Women Teachers), Lexington County
Beautification Committee, Iris Society, Cayce Garden Club, Evergreen
Garden Club (past president), the State Museum, Dimensions in Art
Study Grant, the Garden Club Council of Greater Columbia (past
president), the Judges Club of Columbia Area and the Judges Club of
S.C. Floride was a life member of both the Garden Club of S.C. and
the National Council of Garden Clubs. She served diligently for many
years as the Chairman of the Memorial Garden located in Columbia
near the Governor's Mansion and operated by the Garden Club of S.C.,
Inc. Besides being a flower show judge she was a Gardening
Consultant, Clemson Master Gardner, and Landscape Design Critic. She
received the award of Merit from the Garden Club of South Carolina
in April, 2007.
It is difficult to put into words
all that Floride meant to her family and to the countless people she
was able to touch during her lifetime.
She is survived by her daughter,
Nancy Wood Marsella of Cayce; and her son, Dr. Herbert A. Wood, Jr.
and his wife, Sara Felton Wood, previously of Winchester, VA., and
now Columbia, SC; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be
celebrated at the Holland Avenue Baptist Church with Pastor Charles
M. Wilson officiating at 2 p.m. Monday, November 19, 2007.
Entombment will follow in Southland Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. The
family will receive friends at 12:30 p.m. prior to the service at
the church. Memorials may be made to the Building Fund of Holland
Avenue Baptist Church, 801 12th St., Cayce, SC 29033 or to Heartland
Hospice, 3300 Sunset Blvd., #102, West Columbia, SC 29169. Thompson
Funeral Home of West Columbia is in charge of arrangements. --State,
The (Columbia, SC) - November 18, 2007
-transcribed and contributed by
A. Newell.
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