Ellen Glena Killough

November 29, 2015 Ellen Glena Killough, 88, formerly of Altus and Ozark, Arkansas, passed away quietly at the Crestpark Retirement Inn in Forrest City, Arkansas, on Saturday, November 28, 2015. Born in Nashville, Tennessee on September 27, 1927, she was the oldest of three daughters born to Lester and Lily Loretta Stallings, She lived with family members in Tennessee and Arkansas after the deaths of both parents before she was a teen. She married James Herbert Killough of Lamar, Arkansas, in 1946. They spent many years in Kansas City, Kansas. While Mr. Killough worked on the assembly line for General Motors, Glena, as she was affectionately known to family and friends, worked at just about every job she could find as they raised their three children, Glena Sue, Jo Nell, and James William. Favorites that family members recall were the years she spent driving an ice cream truck and a school bus. Her adoration of these children she drove was evident as she always carried a picture of them along with the photos of her family. She retired from Bonair Boats in Olathe, Kansas, in 1975, moving to Altus, Arkansas, that same year. At their home on the hill in the community of Denning, she and James built their retirement life around caring for their property, growing vegetable and flower gardens, and maintaining a swimming pool that provided endless summers of fun to their grandchildren, Hope Willard Lundt, Holly Willard, and Jason Brooks, trips they called visiting Camp Killough. She was an active member of the Denning Methodist Church and the local Tops chapter. James preceded her in death in 1991. She later downsized, spending much of the next twenty years in nearby Ozark. She could be found most mornings fishing along the banks of the Arkansas River. If she wasn’t fishing, she was probably on an adventure with her sister Alline Gerow and her family of Nashua, New Hampshire, and Cookeville, Tennessee, and her daughter and son-in-law, Jo and Bob Brooks and grandson Jason and family of Olathe and Desoto, Kansas. She saw most of the United States on these trips. Her last three years were spent in Forrest City to be nearer her daughter and son-in-law, Sue and Ron Willard, and granddaughter Holly. She was preceded in death by her son Bill in 1996 and great granddaughter Lila Glen Lundt in 2010. She will also be missed by her sister Frances Hannah of Greenwood, Arkansas, and great grandchildren Ethan Brooks of Desoto, Kansas, Emily Willard of Forrest City, and James Willard Lundt of Brentwood, Tennessee. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to charities that provides toys to children at Christmas. We are especially grateful to the staff at Crestpark that provided care in the final months of her life. A graveside service and burial will be held on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 12:00 noon, at the Lamar Cemetery in Lamar, Arkansas. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Stevens Funeral Home of Forrest City. You may log on to stevensfuneralhome.net for the online registry.

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Ellen Glena Killough

September 27, 1927 - November 28, 2015