Cerilda Ellis, 102

Cerilda Cecelia Anna Jasch Ellis, of Trout Creek, passed away Saturday afternoon, March 21, 2015, at Clark Fork Valley Hospital, Plains, at the age of 102.

Cerilda was born Jan. 6, 1913, in Elma, Iowa, the first child of Ernst and Emma Boehmer Jasch. She completed her schooling in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and worked there until she met Richard Wilson Ellis, and after a brief courtship they were married on May 13, 1950 in Duluth, Minnesota. 

After traveling around the Midwest and Western states they settled for a short time in Coos Bay, Oregon, where their daughter, Winona Ann, was born and they made their way back to Minnesota for a time before more traveling took them through Missouri, Texas, California, Washington and Idaho and finally their ultimate destination of Kalispell, in 1963.

Following the passing of her husband in 1971 she began work at the Flathead County Courthouse in the treasurer’s office where she later retired. 

She enjoyed walking and traveling, as well as beadwork, crocheting and gardening, which she did until age 99. She moved to Trout Creek nine years ago to be near her family.

Cerilda is survived by her daughter, Winona, and Bruce Wortley, and grandson Tyrel Wortley, of Trout Creek; a sister and brother, Gladys Wilke, and Don and Esther Jasch, of Detroit Lakes; brother, Virgil Jasch, of Fargo, North Dakota; and one sister-in-law, Ruth Ellis, of Duluth.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a brother Orval, and a sister Rose.

Services will be held at 11 am. Friday, March 27, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thompson Falls. Interment will follow at the C.E. Conrad Memorial Cemetery in Kalispell at 3 p.m. 

Sunset Hills Funeral Home in Thompson Falls has been entrusted with the arrangements.