San Bernardino County Obituaries

ELEANOR "ELLIE" SHELTON 

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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"Big Bear Grizzly"; Thursday, March 26, 2009 

84, passed March 6, 2009, in Palm Springs, Calif. Born June 28, 1924, in Los Angeles, Calif., Ellie was very active in 
her community while residing in Rossmoor, Los Alamitos. She was involved with the Rossmoor Women's Club, where 
she would play the piano and many other instruments for all their shows. In 1967, she was named winner of a Phyllis 
Diller look-a-like contest and the proceeds went for baseball equipment for the Little League and a musical scholarship. 
Ellie was also a board member of the Los Alamitos Little League baseball. In 1982, moving to Big Bear Lake, Calif., 
and opening her own knit shop, "Ellie's Stitchery" was something she really enjoyed while spending time with her 
"mountain friends." She was always volunteering for whatever she could. Her musical talent and loving, giving soul will 
be missed by her family and friends. She is survived by her husband, Raymond Shelton of Palm Springs, sister Carol 
Ingersoll of Norwalk, daughter and son- in-law, Susan and Nick Nicholas of McCloud, Calif., granddaughter and husband, 
Nichelle and Jason Bartlett of Sacramento, great granddaughters, Ashlyn and Shelby Bartlett, daughter, Jan Beaumont 
of Huntington Beach, daughter and son-in-law. April and Dale Wedge of Big Bear Lake, granddaughter, Meagan and 
grandson Robert Wedge, sons Bill Shelton of Lucerne Valley, granddaughter, Mary Ellie Burton, Jim Shelton of Twentynine 
Palms, grandson, Jeff Hansen of Fallbrook and Robert Shelton of Palm Springs.

"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on".