Ella Ottinger
(May 30, 1921 - August 7, 2014)
Miss Ella Mae Ottinger died Thursday, August 7, 2014, at Franklin Woods Hospital following eighteen month stay at the Christian Care Center of Johnson City.
She was born on May 30, 1921, in Cocke County, TN, and grew up in Greene County. Her father was Milborn Ottinger, who was a World War I veteran and her mother was Bonnie Wills Ottinger McLean.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her step-father, Leonard P. McLean, and a younger brother, Charles David Ottinger, who was killed in a flight training accident in August 1943 in Nebraska during World War II.
Ella was a self-educated person. She loved to travel. She was a switchboard operator as a occupation. She worked at Wright Air Force base, lived in Japan with her mother and step-father. She was also worked in a Jewish hospital and a Catholic hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and Magnavox in Greeneville. She took her mother to Arizona to live due to her health. After the death of her mother, she retired to Johnson City in 1989 and lived at Montrose Court. She lived there until the apartments were sold as condos and she moved to be on a bus line as she never drove a car.
Her greatest pleasure was riding the bus to Kroger and taking care of her cats, Cassie and Tiger, who preceded her in death.
Survivors include several cousins: Berla Ottinger Smith, Jerry Ottinger, Claude Smelcer, Marie Smelcer Ottinger, Alice Smelcer Rader, Jack Ottinger, Mary Jane Ottinger Anderson, Juanita Wills, Charlotte and Royal Rhodes, David Wills, and Keith Wills.
Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Oak Grove Cemetery, Greeneville. The Rev. Jesse Price will officiate. Family and friends are asked to meet at the funeral home at 2 p.m. on Sunday to travel in procession to the cemetery.
Doughty-Stevens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
(May 30, 1921 - August 7, 2014)
Miss Ella Mae Ottinger died Thursday, August 7, 2014, at Franklin Woods Hospital following eighteen month stay at the Christian Care Center of Johnson City.
She was born on May 30, 1921, in Cocke County, TN, and grew up in Greene County. Her father was Milborn Ottinger, who was a World War I veteran and her mother was Bonnie Wills Ottinger McLean.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her step-father, Leonard P. McLean, and a younger brother, Charles David Ottinger, who was killed in a flight training accident in August 1943 in Nebraska during World War II.
Ella was a self-educated person. She loved to travel. She was a switchboard operator as a occupation. She worked at Wright Air Force base, lived in Japan with her mother and step-father. She was also worked in a Jewish hospital and a Catholic hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and Magnavox in Greeneville. She took her mother to Arizona to live due to her health. After the death of her mother, she retired to Johnson City in 1989 and lived at Montrose Court. She lived there until the apartments were sold as condos and she moved to be on a bus line as she never drove a car.
Her greatest pleasure was riding the bus to Kroger and taking care of her cats, Cassie and Tiger, who preceded her in death.
Survivors include several cousins: Berla Ottinger Smith, Jerry Ottinger, Claude Smelcer, Marie Smelcer Ottinger, Alice Smelcer Rader, Jack Ottinger, Mary Jane Ottinger Anderson, Juanita Wills, Charlotte and Royal Rhodes, David Wills, and Keith Wills.
Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Oak Grove Cemetery, Greeneville. The Rev. Jesse Price will officiate. Family and friends are asked to meet at the funeral home at 2 p.m. on Sunday to travel in procession to the cemetery.
Doughty-Stevens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Ella Ottinger
(May 30, 1921 - August 7, 2014)
Miss Ella Mae Ottinger died Thursday, August 7, 2014, at Franklin Woods Hospital following eighteen month stay at the Christian Care Center of Johnson City.
She was born on May 30, 1921, in Cocke County, TN, and grew up in Greene County. Her father was Milborn Ottinger, who was a World War I veteran and her mother was Bonnie Wills Ottinger McLean.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her step-father, Leonard P. McLean, and a younger brother, Charles David Ottinger, who was killed in a flight training accident in August 1943 in Nebraska during World War II.
Ella was a self-educated person. She loved to travel. She was a switchboard operator as a occupation. She worked at Wright Air Force base, lived in Japan with her mother and step-father. She was also worked in a Jewish hospital and a Catholic hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and Magnavox in Greeneville. She took her mother to Arizona to live due to her health. After the death of her mother, she retired to Johnson City in 1989 and lived at Montrose Court. She lived there until the apartments were sold as condos and she moved to be on a bus line as she never drove a car.
Her greatest pleasure was riding the bus to Kroger and taking care of her cats, Cassie and Tiger, who preceded her in death.
Survivors include several cousins: Berla Ottinger Smith, Jerry Ottinger, Claude Smelcer, Marie Smelcer Ottinger, Alice Smelcer Rader, Jack Ottinger, Mary Jane Ottinger Anderson, Juanita Wills, Charlotte and Royal Rhodes, David Wills, and Keith Wills.
Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Oak Grove Cemetery, Greeneville. The Rev. Jesse Price will officiate. Family and friends are asked to meet at the funeral home at 2 p.m. on Sunday to travel in procession to the cemetery.
Doughty-Stevens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
(May 30, 1921 - August 7, 2014)
Miss Ella Mae Ottinger died Thursday, August 7, 2014, at Franklin Woods Hospital following eighteen month stay at the Christian Care Center of Johnson City.
She was born on May 30, 1921, in Cocke County, TN, and grew up in Greene County. Her father was Milborn Ottinger, who was a World War I veteran and her mother was Bonnie Wills Ottinger McLean.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her step-father, Leonard P. McLean, and a younger brother, Charles David Ottinger, who was killed in a flight training accident in August 1943 in Nebraska during World War II.
Ella was a self-educated person. She loved to travel. She was a switchboard operator as a occupation. She worked at Wright Air Force base, lived in Japan with her mother and step-father. She was also worked in a Jewish hospital and a Catholic hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and Magnavox in Greeneville. She took her mother to Arizona to live due to her health. After the death of her mother, she retired to Johnson City in 1989 and lived at Montrose Court. She lived there until the apartments were sold as condos and she moved to be on a bus line as she never drove a car.
Her greatest pleasure was riding the bus to Kroger and taking care of her cats, Cassie and Tiger, who preceded her in death.
Survivors include several cousins: Berla Ottinger Smith, Jerry Ottinger, Claude Smelcer, Marie Smelcer Ottinger, Alice Smelcer Rader, Jack Ottinger, Mary Jane Ottinger Anderson, Juanita Wills, Charlotte and Royal Rhodes, David Wills, and Keith Wills.
Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Oak Grove Cemetery, Greeneville. The Rev. Jesse Price will officiate. Family and friends are asked to meet at the funeral home at 2 p.m. on Sunday to travel in procession to the cemetery.
Doughty-Stevens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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