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Sunday, January 22nd @ 4:00 pm |
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Sunday, January 22nd @ 12:00 - 4:00 pm |
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To be Announced |
MITCHELL – Sam Ely, 80, passed Wednesday, January 18, 2017, at Richard A. Roudebush VA Hospital in Indianapolis.
Born October 24, 1936, in Lee County, Virginia, he was the son of Nathaniel Ely and Sallie (Scott) Hopper. He married Shirley Jean Latch May 12, 1962.
Sam retired from Carpenter Body Works. He played bluegrass music and enjoyed going to flea markets.
Sam was a U. S. Army veteran and a member of American Legion Post No. 250 and Springmill Fraternal Order of Police No. 172.
Surviving:
wife,
Shirley Ely of Mitchell
daughter,
Patricia Lynn (Don) Story of Schertz, Texas
grandchildren,
Travis Redden and Shayla Story
great granddaughter,
Cybella Redden
siblings,
Nate Ely of Mitchell
Homer Ely of Crank, Kentucky
Arnold Ely of Pennington Gap, Virginia
Wanda June McFarland of Cincinnati, Ohio
Pauline Ely of Dryden, Virginia
Ricki Musick of Tennessee
His parents and siblings, James Ely, Britt Ely, Tommy Ely, Aliene Spears, Dorothy Zeeks, Frances Tolbert, David Ely, and Tony Ely, preceded him in death.
Funeral service will be at 4:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, in the Memorial Chapel of Chastain Funeral Home & Cremation Center with Pastor Dwight Dunbar officiating. Military rites will be accorded by American Legion Post No. 250 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 9107. Following cremation, burial will be at a later date in Cresthaven Memory Gardens.
Friends may call from noon until the service on Sunday at the funeral home.
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