Louise Ellard
December 11, 2011
Louise Ellard, a lifelong resident of Scranton died Sunday morning at home after
a long battle with cancer. She was
the widow of William Ellard who died August 17, 2006.
She was born in Scranton, the daughter of the late William W. and Bertha E.
Christmas Wirth. She was an active
member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, a graduate of Scranton Central High
School and Lackawanna Business College and a member of W.A.R. Sorority.
Prior to raising her children she was
employed by the Chamber of Commerce.
She was a loving, caring, and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister
and friend.
In her youth she enjoyed ice skating at Nay Aug Park, where she met her husband.
She loved to bake, knit, walk around Lake
Scranton, had a passion for reading novels until the wee hours of the morning,
and all the card games that were played with her family, especially her
grandchildren on Sunday afternoon.
The entire Ellard and Wirth family would like to thank Dr. Thomas Majernick and
his staff, the doctors at Hematology and Oncology Associates of NEPA and their
staff, Asceracare Hospice in all the love, care and support they had given to
Louise and her family.
Surviving is a daughter, Cindy L. Walsh and her husband James P., Olyphant; two
sons, David B. Ellard, Scranton, William A. Ellard and his wife Donna J.,
Dunmore; a brother, Charles Wirth and his wife Mary Lee, Clarks Green; three
grandchildren, William C. Ellard, Rebecca K. Ellard and James P. Walsh II; many
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by two sisters, Elizabeth Davis and Barbara Hill.
The funeral will be Wednesday at 10:30 from the Miller Bean Funeral Home, Inc.,
436 Cedar Avenue with funeral and committal services at11 a.m. in the Covenant
Presbyterian Church, 550 Madison Avenue with services by the Reverend Scott
Loomer, pastor. Interment will be
private in the Fairview Memorial Park, Elmhurst.
