Amarillo Globe-News

DODSON - Ben Lee Ellifritz, 69, died Monday, April 15, 2002, in Wellington.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. James McLeod, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in North Fairview Cemetery by Adams Funeral Home.
Mr. Ellifritz was born July 15, 1932, to Ben L. Ellifritz and Georgia Brown Ellifritz, in Sayre, Okla. He married Shirley Johnson in 1949 at Quanah.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Melvin Ellifritz of Wellington; eight daughters, Nona Parks of San Angelo, Mary Brown of Heavener, Okla., Edith Ellifritz, Barbara Peters, Beverly Turrentine, Georgia Brown, Shirley Ford and Dephina Ellifritz, all of Wellington; two sisters, Betty Stanley of Wellington and Louise Garrett of Childress; 15 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Wellington Cemetery Association. Amarillo Globe-News, April 17, 2002