
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Forest Park Conference and Retreat Center (where Marion met Ruth 69 years ago and had supported and attended ever since), in care of Elliott Mortuary, 1219 N. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Elliott Mortuary. Newton, Kansas, the county seat of Harvey County, got its start when the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad extended a main line from Emporia westward. His register book will be available to sign from 9 a.m. Private interment will be at Penwell-Gabel Mausoleum and Cemetery, Hutchinson, with honors by the United States Marine Corps Honors Team. 5, 2014, at Elliott Chapel, Hutchinson, with Reverend Richard Brooks presiding. He was preceded in death by his parents a brother, Keith a brother-in-law, Frank Ashens and sister-in-law, Ila Faye Ellis. Other survivors include: their children and spouses, Pat and Bruce Klosterhoff, Dennis and Debi Ellis and a sister, Hazel Ashens, all of Hutchinson a brother, Wayne of Wichita sister-in-law, Carol Ellis of Hesston four grandchildren, Matthew and Karla Zamora, Tim and Maggie Zamora, Suzette Ellis, Alisha and Paul Kendall, three step-grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and five step-great-grandchildren. 5, 1947, he married Ruth Millert in Hutchinson. World War II the largest and deadliest military conflict in the history of humankind was a watershed. Marion had been a newspaper pressman all his working life with 20 years at the Newton Kansan and retired with 22 years of service from The Hutchinson News in 1988. View All 964,202 Memorials for the World War II Site. Marine Corps during World War II and was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds suffered on Okinawa. He was a 1944 graduate of Newton High School, a member of Tenth Avenue United Methodist Church, Hutchinson, and McPherson Gem and Mineral Society, Quivira Council Boy Scouts, Newton, and had served in the Asiatic Pacific Theater with the U.S. 29, 1925, in Garden City, Kansas, the son of Alfred and Effa Behm Ellis.

grew considerably after World War II with the transformation of Mennonite missions. 2, 2014 at Mennonite Friendship Communities. PO Box 347 Newton, KS 67114-0347 500 S Main St. Marion Earl "Hoot" Ellis, 88 died Tuesday, Sept.
