Carmen Rose Ellis

A visitation will be held Friday, May 3, 2024 from 10:00AM to 11:00AM at Newcomer’s White Chapel Funeral Home, 6600 North East Antioch Road, Gladstone, Missouri 64119. A celebration of life will occur Friday, May 3, 2024 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM, 6600 North East Antioch Road, Gladstone, Missouri 64119. A committal will occur Friday, May 3, 2024 from 12:30PM to 1:00PM at Deister Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri 64151.

Serving as pallbearers are John Ellis, Steven Ellis, David Allison, Peter Allison, Daniel Allison, and Justus Allison.

Carmen Rose (Deister) Ellis was born on February 4, 1918 in Parkville, Missouri to parents John L. and Maria R. (Garcilazo) Deister. She was the youngest of 6 children; Inez; Louis; Maria, Jeanne “Jan”, and William “Francis”. She attended junior college at St. Agnes Academy, graduating in 1937 in Kansas City, Missouri where she went on to attend teletype school until 1941. She worked downtown as a cosmetics consultant at Luzier’s Cosmetics for a time while spending years caring for her aging parents before meeting and ultimately marrying Alvin A. Ellis on December 2, 1950. Shortly following, she gave birth to 4 children in the very same home that she was born, in former Parkville, MO, now Kansas City, Missouri which is also the home she passed away at.

Carmen is survived by her four children; John C. (Kim) Ellis of Tonganoxie, Kansas; Kathryn M. (Thomas) Culter; Valerie A. Allison; and Steven J. Ellis all of Kansas City, MO; grandchildren; David J. Allison; Joseph J. Allison both of Kansas City, MO; Jacob M. (Jennifer) Ellis of Burtchville, MI; Peter J. Allison; Jennifer L. (Culter) Lynn; Daniel J. Allison all of Kansas City, MO; Eric E. (Devon) Ellis of Lee’s Summit, MO; Ethan E. Ellis of Kansas City, MO; Evan E. Ellis of St. Joseph, MO; 16 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great grandchildren.

Carmen is preceded in death by her beloved husband, Alvin A. Ellis of Kansas City, MO, sisters Maria D. of St. Joseph, MO; Rita Jeanne “Jan” R. of Kansas City, MO; and brother William F. (Betty Jean) Deister of Tucson, AZ and grandson Barry J. Allison of Kansas City, MO.

Carmen’s memory will be cherished for eternity.