Obit – Eld. Dennis Wayne Ellis

Retired Missionary Baptist Pastor, Eld. Dennis Wayne Ellis, of Lebanon and formerly of the Pleasant Shade Community was pronounced deceased at 4:45 a.m. Sunday May 14, 2024 at the Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital.

Eld. Barney Allison and Eld. Brent Hall officiated at the 12 noon Wednesday funeral services from the Ligon & Bobo Funeral Home in Lebanon. 

Born November 11, 1954 in Warren County, Kentucky, he was the son of the late James Leon Ellis who died June 24, 2007 at the age of 74 and Hertha Lee Dalton Ellis who died August 5, 1999 at the age of 62.

He was also preceded in death by his first wife, Sumner County native Diane Case Ellis who died March 22, 2015 at the age of 61; a sister, Theresa Ellis Marlin who died March 6, 2021 at the age of 64 and a brother, U. S. Marine veteran Steven Ray Ellis who died June 4, 2013 at the age of 54.

Eld. Ellis was a graduate of Franklin-Simpson County High School and the Western Kentucky University.

Most of his working career was in quality control at several auto manufacturing plants around the country.

As a Missionary Baptist Church, he was ordained to the full work of the ministry in 1975 by the New Harmony Missionary Baptist Church in Logan County, Kentucky. 

He pastored New Harmony from 1975-1988 and then pastored Old Way Missionary Baptist Church in Franklin, Kentucky from 1988-2019 when failing health following an automobile accident forced him to give up the pastorate work. 

At the time of his death be was attending the Hartsville Missionary Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife Lynette Whitley Ellis; three children, Chris Ellis and wife Shelia, Mandy Ellis, Brandon Ellis and wife Angie; step-daughter, Amanda McCabe and husband James; eleven grandchildren, Ashlyn Agee and husband Nik, Shayla Hammonds, Gavin Hammonds, Daniel Ellis, Lilly Ellis, Nolah Ellis, Brooklyn Ellis, Billy Brannan, J. J. Brannan, Mason McCabe; brother, Gary Ellis and wife Linda.

The Ellis family has requested memorials to the Hartsville Missionary Baptist Church.

LIGON & BOBO of LEBANON