Funeral services were held Wednesday for Maedell Nixon, 66, at the Huntsville Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Dewey Morgan officiating. Burial followed in the Farris Cemetery. Mrs. Nixon was born January 14, 1907 in Walker County as the daughter of V.E. Ellington and Alice Groze Ellington. She died Sunday. She is survived by her husband, Sam Nixon of Huntsville; her mother, Mrs. Alice Ellington of Huntsville; three daughters, Mrs. Lee Minter of Houston, Mrs. Doris Birdwell of Baytown and Mrs. Elva Mae Rickman of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; three brothers, Arthur Ellington, O.B. Ellington and Leon Ellington of Huntsville; five sisters, Viola Haimon of Houston, Dorothy Reeves of Richards, Pearl Harding of Conroe, Lessie Reinhart and Essie Brown of Huntsville. Mrs. Nixon had four grand children. Pallbearers included Charles Frierson, Wilbur Bartee, Horace Turner, Buddy Wells, Cleo Wells and Joe Jones.
Funeral services were held Wednesday for Maedell Nixon, 66, at the Huntsville Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Dewey Morgan officiating. Burial followed in the Farris Cemetery. Mrs. Nixon was born January 14, 1907 in Walker County as the daughter of V.E. Ellington and Alice Groze Ellington. She died Sunday. She is survived by her husband, Sam Nixon of Huntsville; her mother, Mrs. Alice Ellington of Huntsville; three daughters, Mrs. Lee Minter of Houston, Mrs. Doris Birdwell of Baytown and Mrs. Elva Mae Rickman of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; three brothers, Arthur Ellington, O.B. Ellington and Leon Ellington of Huntsville; five sisters, Viola Haimon of Houston, Dorothy Reeves of Richards, Pearl Harding of Conroe, Lessie Reinhart and Essie Brown of Huntsville. Mrs. Nixon had four grand children. Pallbearers included Charles Frierson, Wilbur Bartee, Horace Turner, Buddy Wells, Cleo Wells and Joe Jones.
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Infant Elington
1900–1900
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Bessie Ellington Brown
1901–1985
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Lessie W. Ellington Reinhardt
1904–1980
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Arthur Everett Ellington Sr
1907–1978
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Nora Pearl Ellington Harding
1909–1993
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Clifton E Ellington
1910–1951
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Obie Ellington
1913–1993
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Viola Mae "Vi" Ellington Brown
1915–1985
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Dorothy Ellington Reaves
1917–1990
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Ester Ellington Johnson
1922–1945
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Leon Ellington
1924–1990
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