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Information for Theone “Sam” Barnes Chirin Ellis
13 December, 1917 – 1 August, 1995
Idaho Press-Tribune, August, 1995
Contributed by Helen Strine
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Theone
"Sam" Ellis |
Theone “Sam” Ellis, 77, of
Nampa died Tuesday, August 1, 1995 at a Nampa care center. She
was born Dec. 13, 1917
in Modesto,
California to Alonzo and Fern
Barnes, growing up and attending schools in that area. She
married V. “Wally” Chirin in 1935 in Reno, Nevada. They lived
in several states until settling in the Treasure Valley in the
late 1940s. They lived for a number of years in the Melba and
Marsing areas. Together with their children they built a home
in Owyhee County near lower Reynolds Creek where they mined
until his death in 1959. She worked in agriculture and as a
waitress and cook in Marsing and Nampa.
She married Miles Ellis in 1962, living in Nampa until
three years after his death in 1974. She then moved to Bend,
Oregon where she was active as a volunteer for many charitable
causes as well as the Bend
Senior Center. She
returned to Idaho in 1992.
She loved flower gardening, raising birds, and her daily
contact with her friends and family She was an avid gardener
who enjoyed the challenge of creating a showplace yard
wherever she was living. Her love of seeing new places and
making new friends was well served by her years of travel
throughout the United States with her family and later with
her senior group tours. She never met a stranger, only new
friends.
She is survived by her daughters, Nona DeDual of
Portland, Oregon, Valerie Tenney and her husband, Michael of
Bremerton, Washington, and her son, Ten Chirin and his wife,
Laneal of Nampa. Also surviving are her sisters, Nona Thorson
and June Kinnick of California, 7 grand-children, and12
great-grandchildren; and her longtime friend, June Cloyd of
Nampa.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the
Mountain States Tumor Institute, Nampa, or flowers may be
sent.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Saturday,
August 5, 1995 at the Alsip Funeral Chapel, Nampa. Interment
will follow in the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Caldwell. |
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