Josephine D. Ellen, 93, went to be with her Lord and Savior on September 28, 2022. A Celebration of her life will be held on Monday, October 3, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel of Macon Memorial Park Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Macon Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will greet friends on Sunday, October 2, 2022 from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home. The family requests that masks be worn for the visitation and service.
Known affectionately as “Muh Muh”, Mrs. Josephine D. Ellen was born on March 3, 1929 to the parentage of the late Charlie and Nettie Wooten Dunn in Lizella, Georgia. Her spiritual foundation began at an early age at the Whitesprings Baptist Church in Lizella where she was baptized. A lifelong resident of Bibb County, she was educated in the Bibb County Public School System. Josephine was married to her sweetheart Mr. C.B. Ellen of Macon, Georgia and to this union seven children were born. Josephine also raised her granddaughter Teresa Eason as her own. Josephine was an exceptional domestic engineer and took care of not only her family but anyone who came into her home with a great meal and an even better laugh or two! Josephine also provided unconditional, untiring and unwavering love and medical care to her paraplegic son, Larry, for over 20 years.
She was preceded in death by her husband C.B. Ellen, her sisters, Willie Mae Dunn, Cherry Dunn, Mattie Griswold, Margaret Lewis, Eliza Keil, and Tommie Shannon; her brothers, C.B. Dunn and Dan Dunn; her daughter Betty Ann Woodard, and her son Larry Ellen.
She leaves to cherish her memories, her sister, Helen Hughes; her son Nathaniel Ellen, her daughters; Nettie Cutler (Charles), Jacquelyn Tharpe, Mary Tharpe, Joann Dean (Milton), and Teresa Eason (Eldridge). Seventeen Grandchildren, Twenty-Four Great Grandchildren, and Fifteen Great-Great Grandchildren; Two devoted nieces Irene Clark and Ann Lewis; One devoted nephew Jerome Lewis and a host of nieces, nephews and dear friends.
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Macon Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery has charge of arrangements.
