Melissa Kaye Ellis
1955 — 2025
From the Jan 6, 2026 e-EditionHUNTINGDON — Mrs. Melissa Kaye Ellis, 70, of Huntingdon, Tennessee died Sunday December 28, 2025 at Life Care Center.
Funeral services will be conducted 2:00 PM Friday January 2, 2026 in the Chapel of Dilday-Carter Funeral Home. Brother Joel Goodrum officiating.
The family will receive friends at Dilday-Carter Funeral Home on Friday from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.
Mrs. Ellis was born April 13, 1955 to the late J. L. Taylor and Sadie Mae Goodrum Taylor. Preceded in death by her husband, Mike Ellis, and a sister, Carole Bauman.
She is survived by two daughters, Stephanie (Renee) McMackin of Buena Vista, Tennessee and Brandi Ellis of McKenzie, Tennessee; two sons Kevin (Bobbie Jo) McMackin of Mixie, Tennessee and Michael McMackin of Montana; one sister Jan Hollowell of Huntingdon, Tennessee; one brother, Jimmy Dale Taylor of Huntingdon, Tennessee; 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Dilday-Carter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 731-986-8281
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