Doris Nance Ellis

Doris Mae Nance Ellis, age 88 of Forest Hill Road, Lexington passed away Tuesday morning October 4, 2016 at Grayson Creek of Welcome. Funeral service will be held 11:00 AM Friday, October 7, 2016 at Pauls Chapel Evangelical and Reformed Church, where she was a member with Rev. Aaron Long officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at Davidson Funeral Home from 6:00 until 8:00 PM Thursday night and at other times at the home. Doris was born in Davidson County May 26, 1928 to John McCoy Nance and Martha Ida Elizabeth Walker Nance. She was a homemaker and worked as the bookkeeper with her late husband Leonard at Ellis Jewelers which they owned until 1978. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Leonard Wilson Ellis, Sr.; sisters, Ernestine Barnhardt, June Thorp and Valier Doby; brothers, Fred and Calvin Nance and long-time friend and employee, Bobby Weaver. Surviving are her son, Leonard Wilson Ellis, Jr. (Holly) of Winston Salem; daughter, Linda Mashburn of Lexington; granddaughter, Wendy Coe; great-grandchildren, Robert and Brittany Rich; sister, Maureen Alexander of Lexington; and long-time friend, Betty Weaver of Lexington. Memorials may be made to Pauls Chapel Evangelical and Reformed Church, 2791 West Center Street Ext. Lexington, NC 27295 or North Carolina Lions Foundation, 7050 Cam Dogwood Drive, Sherrills Ford, NC 28673. Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net