Freddy Sue Pruitt Ellis entered heaven on December 11, 2018.  She was 92 years old.  Mrs. Ellis was the daughter of Fred and Julina Pruitt of Itasca, Texas.  She was raised in Itasca and graduated from Itasca High School in 1943.  Freddy Sue grew up and was baptized with a group of her friends at Central Baptist Church of Itasca.  She graduated from Baylor University School of Nursing in 1946 and married Harry L. Ellis on August 20, 1946, shortly afterwards they moved to Duncan, Oklahoma. She and her late husband, Harry, were married 64 years.  To this union were born two children, Larry Don and Sue Ann Ellis.

She and Harry taught in the Junior Dept at First Baptist Duncan, and then moved to a church plant where she was a charter member of the Plato Road Baptist Church in Duncan and active in Christian work all her life teaching Sunday School and serving as the church pianist or organist.  She loved singing and playing Christian music and sang for many events.  At the time of her death she was a member of Eagle Heights Church.

Freddy Sue worked for the Duncan Regional Hospital for many years.  Mrs. Ellis worked in several areas; serving as Director of Nurses at Physicians & Surgeons Hospital, Surgery Supervisor at Duncan Regional Hospital for many years.  She finished her career as a Computer Instructor, and as Infection Control Officer at Duncan Regional Hospital in Duncan.  For approximately three years, she was the general Manager of KHME, the family owned radio station in Duncan OK.

They lived in Duncan for 55 years until retirements.  She and husband Harry moved back to Itasca, her hometown, in 2001.  In 2007 she and Harry moved to Denver for health reasons.   She lived with her husband in a retirement center in Denver until her husband’s death.  She lived with her son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Jill, for two and one half years. In 2013 she moved to Grace Living Center in Norman, OK.

She is survived by her two children, Larry and his wife Jill of Denver, Colorado and Sue Ann Wagner and her husband, Don of Oklahoma City.  There are five grandchildren, Joshua Ellis Wagner and his wife Miranda, of Oklahoma City, Julia Suzanne and her husband Dr. Jason Leinen of Oklahoma City, OK, John Wagner and his wife, Courtney, of Moore, Oklahoma, Christine Joy Ellis Kosoff and her husband, Brandan Kosoff of Denver, and Jonathan Pruitt Ellis and his wife, Cyndal, of Denver.  She had eight great granddaughters and three great grandsons. They are Abigail, Danielle, Brianna Wagner, Jasmine and Jocelyn, J.D. Leinen all of Oklahoma City, and Payden and Jemma Wagner of Moore, OK.  Also, Pearl and Lincoln Ellis, and Arianna Kosoff of Denver. She has many nieces and nephews who loved her dearly.

Memorials may be made to the Baptist Student Union, 1320 West Lindsey, Norman, OK 73069.

Internment is in the Itasca, Texas Cemetery beside her beloved husband, Harry, her Grandparents, JP Thomason, and wife Susan, her Uncle Clay Thomason and her Parents Fred and Julina Pruitt.

View the bulletin from her funeral service at the Central Baptist Church, Itasca TX.