Ellis Bailey
Posted: April 22, 2014
COLUMBUS — Ellis Bailey, 78, died April 19, 2014, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Services are Saturday at 11 a.m. at Carter’s Funeral Service Chapel in Columbus with Barnell Tate officiating. Burial will follow at Piney Grove M.B. Church Cemetery. Visitation is today from 3-5 p.m. at the funeral home. Mr. Bailey was born May 25, 1937, in Columbus, to the late Marshall Macon and Laura Bailey. He was formerly employed with Kankakee Foundry. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by siblings, Robert, Charity, Sarah Bailey and Jimmie Lou Bailey James. He is survived by his children, Barbara Watford, Sarah Ireland, Gifford Bailey, Ronnie Bailey and Christine Winston, all of Kankakee, Ill., and Majorie Bailey of Rantoul, Ill.; 15 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.