Annie Lydia Smith Ellis, 82, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Thursday, September 6, 2018, at Irwin County Hospital, in Ocilla, Georgia.
Funeral services will be held 2 PM, Sunday, September 9, 2018, at Christian Fellowship, in Ben Hill County, with the Rev. Rex Johnson officiating. Interment will follow in the Wray Cemetery, in Irwin County. The family will receive friends Saturday evening, from 6 PM until 8 PM, at the funeral home in Fitzgerald.
Mrs. Ellis was born May 17, 1936, in Fitzgerald, Georgia, to the late Isaac N. & Georgia Lee Dunbar Smith. She graduated in 1956 from William R. Boone High School in Orlando, Florida. She returned to the community in 2009 from Florida. She worked in the cafeteria for Orange Memorial Hospital in Orlando, Florida, and also worked for T.G. Lee Dairy and Deep South. Mrs. Ellis was a member of Christian Fellowship, Inc.
She is survived by her son Duane Ellis & his fiancé Carla Davis of Fitzgerald; two daughters: Cynthia Denise & Brett Godfrey of Huntington, Indiana and Robin Noleen Ellis of McRae; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a brother, Edward Smith & Marie of Orlando, Florida and two sisters: Vivian Nichols of Fitzgerald and Carlene Powers of Orlando, Florida. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Robert Noel Ellis; one brother and one sister.