Frances Wilson
Frances Ellis Wilson, 94, of Uniontown, Pa., died Saturday, July 12, 2003, at the Horizon Personal Care Home in Fairchance. She was born in Uniontown, June 12, 1909, the daughter of the late Charles A. Ellis Sr., and Maude Steele Ellis.
Also preceding her in death were her husband, John R. Wilson in 1996; her son, Ellis Robinson Wilson in 1986; a brother, Charles A. Ellis Jr.; and a sister, Elizabeth Frederick.
Frances was a graduate of Uniontown High School and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and had been a schoolteacher in the Uniontown School District at New Salem, Boyle and East End Elementary Schools. She was the oldest living member of the Great Bethel Baptist Church, and was a former Sunday school teacher, a member of the Philathea Class, American Baptist Women, Baptist Youth Fellowship and Uniontown Hospital Auxiliary.
She is survived by two grandchildren, Zachary R. Wilson and Catherine Stuart Wilson and their mother, Rebecca Deem, all of Vienna, W.Va.; and nieces and nephews, Nancy Guise of Bedford, Pa., Ann Hoffman of Winchester, Va., Susan Waggoner of North Carolina, Jean Ellsworth of Fairchance, Linda Heinbaugh of Hopwood, Mark Ellis of Angola, Africa, Chuck Ellis of Oakdale, Pa., Dr. John Ellis of Connellsville, and Cindy and Don Wilson of Florida.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the ANDREW D. FERGUSON FUNERAL HOME INC., 80 Morgantown St., Uniontown, Pa. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2003, at 12:30 p.m., in the Great Bethel Baptist Church, with the Rev. Michael Hall officiating. Private interment will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Great Bethel Baptist Church, 47 West Fayette St., Uniontown.