Obituary:  Herbert Rice Ellis   

Herbert Rice Ellis

CISCO -- Herbert Rice Ellis, 78, died Wednesday in an Eastland hospital.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Kimbrough Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Bob Ferguson officiating. Burial will be in Cottonwood Cemetery.

Mr. Ellis was born in Cottonwood and married Wanda Juanita Curry in 1969 in Clyde. He was a farmer and was a member of the Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include his wife, of Cisco; four stepchildren, Jerry Harris of Abilene, J.W. Harris of Clyde, Marlene Coats of Montrose, Colo., and Connie Jernigan of Cisco; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, Texas, June 4, 1998