Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Saturday, November 21, 1959

MRS. ELLIE CANNON

Mrs. Ellie Estelle Cannon, 57, of Monroe, died in an Alexandria hospital at 2:40 p.m. Friday. She had been a patient for the past two weeks.

She had resided at 1610 S. Grand St.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete last night, but will be under direction of Hixson Brothers. The body will lie in state at the residence of a brother at 1010 S. First St.

Services will be in the Bosco Baptist church, and interment will be in the Bosco cemetery.

Mrs. Cannon was a native of Clarks.

Survivors include her husband, H. W. Cannon, Monroe; two brothers, Ira Whittington, Monroe, and Sammy Whittington, of California; two sisters, Mrs. Inez McClanahan and Mrs. Beulah Blackwell, both of Columbia.