Lois Maurie "Bevan" Ellis

Lois Maurie ‘Bevan’ Ellis was born the daughter of Floyd and Grace ‘Gregg’ Bevan on October 3, 1921, in Hugoton, Kansas. She went to be with the Lord on December 4, 2025, in Bellingham, Washington. Surviving are son Keith and wife Elizabeth of Sully, Iowa; son-in-law Floyd Kintzel and wife Paula of Ganfield, Arkansas; daughters, Eva Headrick and husband Dennis of Newberg, Oregon; Trish Whiteman and husband Daryl of Atlanta, Kansas; and Sandy Nace of Ferndale, Washington; twenty-nine grandchildren, fifty great-grandchildren, and thirteen great-great grandchildren, and many other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by Vern, her husband of fifty-nine years, her daughter Joyce, and all of her seven siblings.

Lois attended grade school in Hugoton, Kansas, where in eighth grade she was the valedictorian of her class. With her family, Lois moved to Center, Colorado where she graduated from high school. On September 1, 1940, she married Vern Ellis, and they lived on a farm growing potatoes and raising pigs, sheep, and chickens. Keith, Joyce and Eva joined the family during this time. In 1948, Vern and Lois felt a call to full-time Christian service, sold the farm and moved to Haviland, Kansas to get the training they needed at Friends Bible College.

Lois sat in on all the Bible classes she could as well as raising three children. In the spring of 1950, they were called to pastor at Springbank Friends Church just outside of Allen, Nebraska. It was a farming community, so Lois kept very busy with a big garden, calling with Vern on the people in the community and taking care of her family which had been joined by Trish and Sandy.

In 1955 Vern and Lois were asked to go to the mission at Rough Rock, Arizona to minister to the Navajo Indians. Lois loved working with the people and even now thirty-nine years after they left Rough Rock, she received two to three phone calls and four to five letters weekly.

After retiring and visiting each of their children and grandchildren wherever they were living, they pastored a church in Penrose, Colorado for nine years then settled in Ferndale close to Sandy.

Lois was a woman who loved the Lord above all, who always wore a smile, and kept going no matter what happened. Her prayer every morning was “God, please show me who I can bless today.” She is loved and will be missed by anyone who knew her.

A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at the Hillcrest Church, 1400 Larrabee Ave., Bellingham, Washington. Interment is at Enterprise Cemetery is private.