St. Clair County Obits

ELLEN ARMINTA KNIGHT UNDERWOOD

Clinton Daily Democrat
Ellen Arminta Underwood was born October 28, 1910, to James and Stella Knight in St. Clair County. She attended Chalk Level and Lowry City schools. Ellen confessed Jesus Christ Lord and Savior when she was 10 years old, and attended Kidd's Chapel Church and later the Ohio Christian Church. On December 1, 1931, she was married to Clell Edward Underwood in the home of Rev. Walkup, minister of the Deepwater Presbyterian Church. Clell and Ellen made their home in the Chalk Level and Ohio neighborhood until 1946 and then in Deepwater for 31 years. They lived in Appleton City then until about four years ago when they moved to the Pleasant Hill Health and Rehabilitation Center in Pleasant Hill. Ellen was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Ralph and Arnold, and one sister, Lillian, who died at nine months of age. Ellen is survived by her husband, Clell, their two sons, Rolla Wesley Underwood and his wife, JoAnn, Pleasant Hill, and their four children, Jacqualine Sue, Roger Lynn, Sondra Louise and Randall Gene, and Wendell Lynn Underwood and his wife, Shirley Darlene of Sedalia, and their two children, Kameha Ruth and Dana Rae. She is also survived by nine great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews and many friends. Ellen died Monday, august 3, 1998, at about 4:30 in the afternoon at the Pleasant Hill Health and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services were held at the Vansant-Mills Chapel Friday, August 7, at 11 a.m. with Rev. Robert Fenwick officiating. Pallbearers were Roger Underwood, Randy Underwood, Brandon Flaters, Robert Terryberry, Myron "Sparky" Knight and Stanley Knight. Burial was in the Clinton Memory Gardens Cemetery, Clinton, under the direction of Vansant-Mills Funeral Home of Clinton.