CARRIE E. ELLIS A lifelong believer, Jesus Christ was Carrie’s first love. During her 99 years, she has fought the good fight and has kept the faith which has sustained her throughout her life. Now, her race is finished. As a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother, she nurtured, provided, counseled, and prayed without ceasing for her husband, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. Next to her love for Jesus, she loved them most of all. She was the oldest of 9 children. She loved her family, both her own and her husbands’, more than words can even express. After the loss of her brothers and sisters and her husband’s brothers and sisters, she became chief motivator and encourager to numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins and is commonly referred to by them as “saint” Carrie was a faithful and loyal member of the Good News Advent Church. She taught Sunday School for decades and the children who she taught still consider her the best teacher ever. She loved her church and her church family with her whole heart and they loved her back. She is preceded in death by her parents, Mark Leslie and Margaret Woodard Ellis, her true love, helpmate and husband, Herbert Hickman Ellis Sr., her only beloved son, Herbert H. (Herbie) Ellis Jr., two grandsons, Jay Ellis Womble and Travis Cobb Ellis, and a great-granddaughter, Zoey Jane Pittman, and all of her brothers and sisters and her husband’s brothers and sisters. She is survived by her three daughters, Margaret Rosalie Ellis of Tarboro; Glendy Ellis Gregory and her husband Preston Gregory of Wilson; Beth Ellis Pittman and her husband Steve Pittman of Macclesfield; a daughter-in-law, Lois Cobb Ellis of Wilson; six grandsons, Wornell Gregory, Brian L. Ellis, Bryan K. Ellis, Austin Pittman, Kyle Ellis and Jordan Pittman; three granddaughters, Lisa Webb, Dawn Lashley, and Carrie Williamson; twelve great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. Well done, thy good and faithful servant. Her visitation will be held Tuesday (TODAY) from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Good News Advent Christian Church, 6990 Good News Church Rd. in Stantonsburg and at other times in the home at 1857 Webbs Lake Rd. in Macclesfield. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the Church with burial to follow in the Good News Advent Christian Church Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Thomas-Yelverton at Evergreen 2704 Nash St., in Wilson. www.thomasyelverton.
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