CHARLES LEE ELLINGHOUSE JR.

FREDERICKTOWN -- Funeral service for Charles Lee Ellinghouse Jr., 72, of Fredericktown, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Wilson Funeral Home. The Rev. Bill Morrow will officiate, with burial in the New Prospect Church cemetery in Silva.

Visitation was held Saturday at the funeral chapel in Fredericktown.

Ellinghouse died Thursday, March 7, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center.

He was born July 22, 1923, at Lowndes, son of Charles Lee Ellinghouse Sr. and Mary Ruth Simpson. He and Melba Louise Costephens were married April 2, 1949, at Glen Allen.

Ellinghouse was employed by the Missouri State Highway Department for 38 years as a senior construction engineer. He retired in 1984. He also was a veteran of the U.S. Marines, serving in the South Pacific during World War II.

He was a member of the Fredericktown Park Board, a commander and quartermaster of the E & J Victory Post No. 4320, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a member of the New Prospect Baptist Church in Silva.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Charles Lee Ellinghouse III of Cape Girardeau; a daughter, Debra Ann Renfro of Dexter; a stepmother, Betty Ellinghouse of Ironton; five brothers, Cletus Ellinghouse of Puxico, Harold Ellinghouse of Piedmont, John Sawyer of Afton, Dardell Sawyer of Chino, Calif., and Marvin Sawyer of St. Louis; five sisters, Glenda Jongeward of The Woodlands, Texas, Mary Beth Stivers of Piedmont, Dorothy Willming of St. Louis, Leslie McKeever of Afton and Mary Petrekovich of Smithton, Ill.; and five grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a grandmother.