Mims, Bernice Jackson Ellis
B: Mar 7, 1904- D: Feb 17, 1992
Funeral will be at 2 pm Thursday at collier-Butler chapel for Bernice (Jackson) Mims, 87, of Waters Ave., who died Monday, Feb 17, 1992. Dr. Terry E. Guyton will officiate. Burial in Forrest cemetery. Collier-Butler Funeral Home is in charge.
Mrs. Mims was a native and lifelong resident of Etowah County. She was a member of the Alabama City Church of God. Mrs. Mims was past president of the African Violet Society. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Otis Ellis and Leroy Mims, and a son, Pat Ellis.
She is survived by sons, Alvis Ellis, Birmingham, and Gerald Ellis, St. Petersburg, Fl.; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; brothers, Waltene Jackson, Lakeland, FL., and Roosevelt Jackson, Altoona; sisters, Alene Huffstutler, Altoona, and Imogene Ellis, Altoona; and a number of nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 tonight at the funeral home.
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When Bernice was just a teen the family lived in Gadsden. The Ellis family lived just down the street so, I am sure that is how she met Otis. They were married in Dade County, Georgia. According to son Alvis they went to Dade Co, Ga. in a buggy. On returning to Gadsden they ran into rain so they stopped at a house along the way for the night. The lady of the house made them sleep in separate room for she did not believe they were married. Quite a start for a honeymoon.
B: Mar 7, 1904- D: Feb 17, 1992
Funeral will be at 2 pm Thursday at collier-Butler chapel for Bernice (Jackson) Mims, 87, of Waters Ave., who died Monday, Feb 17, 1992. Dr. Terry E. Guyton will officiate. Burial in Forrest cemetery. Collier-Butler Funeral Home is in charge.
Mrs. Mims was a native and lifelong resident of Etowah County. She was a member of the Alabama City Church of God. Mrs. Mims was past president of the African Violet Society. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Otis Ellis and Leroy Mims, and a son, Pat Ellis.
She is survived by sons, Alvis Ellis, Birmingham, and Gerald Ellis, St. Petersburg, Fl.; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; brothers, Waltene Jackson, Lakeland, FL., and Roosevelt Jackson, Altoona; sisters, Alene Huffstutler, Altoona, and Imogene Ellis, Altoona; and a number of nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 tonight at the funeral home.
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When Bernice was just a teen the family lived in Gadsden. The Ellis family lived just down the street so, I am sure that is how she met Otis. They were married in Dade County, Georgia. According to son Alvis they went to Dade Co, Ga. in a buggy. On returning to Gadsden they ran into rain so they stopped at a house along the way for the night. The lady of the house made them sleep in separate room for she did not believe they were married. Quite a start for a honeymoon.
Mims, Bernice Jackson Ellis
B: Mar 7, 1904- D: Feb 17, 1992
Funeral will be at 2 pm Thursday at collier-Butler chapel for Bernice (Jackson) Mims, 87, of Waters Ave., who died Monday, Feb 17, 1992. Dr. Terry E. Guyton will officiate. Burial in Forrest cemetery. Collier-Butler Funeral Home is in charge.
Mrs. Mims was a native and lifelong resident of Etowah County. She was a member of the Alabama City Church of God. Mrs. Mims was past president of the African Violet Society. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Otis Ellis and Leroy Mims, and a son, Pat Ellis.
She is survived by sons, Alvis Ellis, Birmingham, and Gerald Ellis, St. Petersburg, Fl.; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; brothers, Waltene Jackson, Lakeland, FL., and Roosevelt Jackson, Altoona; sisters, Alene Huffstutler, Altoona, and Imogene Ellis, Altoona; and a number of nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 tonight at the funeral home.
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When Bernice was just a teen the family lived in Gadsden. The Ellis family lived just down the street so, I am sure that is how she met Otis. They were married in Dade County, Georgia. According to son Alvis they went to Dade Co, Ga. in a buggy. On returning to Gadsden they ran into rain so they stopped at a house along the way for the night. The lady of the house made them sleep in separate room for she did not believe they were married. Quite a start for a honeymoon.
B: Mar 7, 1904- D: Feb 17, 1992
Funeral will be at 2 pm Thursday at collier-Butler chapel for Bernice (Jackson) Mims, 87, of Waters Ave., who died Monday, Feb 17, 1992. Dr. Terry E. Guyton will officiate. Burial in Forrest cemetery. Collier-Butler Funeral Home is in charge.
Mrs. Mims was a native and lifelong resident of Etowah County. She was a member of the Alabama City Church of God. Mrs. Mims was past president of the African Violet Society. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Otis Ellis and Leroy Mims, and a son, Pat Ellis.
She is survived by sons, Alvis Ellis, Birmingham, and Gerald Ellis, St. Petersburg, Fl.; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; brothers, Waltene Jackson, Lakeland, FL., and Roosevelt Jackson, Altoona; sisters, Alene Huffstutler, Altoona, and Imogene Ellis, Altoona; and a number of nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 tonight at the funeral home.
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When Bernice was just a teen the family lived in Gadsden. The Ellis family lived just down the street so, I am sure that is how she met Otis. They were married in Dade County, Georgia. According to son Alvis they went to Dade Co, Ga. in a buggy. On returning to Gadsden they ran into rain so they stopped at a house along the way for the night. The lady of the house made them sleep in separate room for she did not believe they were married. Quite a start for a honeymoon.
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