Born January 5, 1947, to Jessie & John Ellis, in Seven Oaks, Kent, England, who have preceded
him in death.
George is survived by: his wife, Doris Johnson Hitchcock Ellis; his 3 step-children Matt
Hitchcock and his wife Debra; Mark Hitchcock and his wife Gloria; Holly Friesenhahn and her
husband Robert; his 5 grandchildren Matthew Hitchcock, Morgan Hitchcock and his wife Amber,
and Jordan Hitchcock; and Ann Marie and William Friesenhahn; and his sister Lucy Ellis Casey
and her husband Greg. He is also survived by many cousins and friends in England and
Texas. George was loved by all who knew him.
George went through boarding school from age 7 to 17 at Ashdown House and Winchester
College (equivalent to high school), in the south of England, then to Kings College, Cambridge,
for a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering. During his teens he took gliding lessons which
helped him when he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) after university. He was 21 when he
joined the RAF.
He always said he joined the air force to fly fast planes, so after 13 years in the cockpit of a
Lightning fighter, and other planes he figured his next promotion would likely be a desk job, so
he resigned his commission with the rank of Flight Lieutenant. Before he left the RAF he was
given training as a test pilot, so after leaving the air force in 1980, he went to work for British
Aerospace as a test pilot. He worked for them for about 15 years, then another 2 years as test
pilot in Wichita, Kansas for Raytheon Aircraft Co. Worried about his elderly folks back in
England, he left Kansas for England and flew free-lance for 2 years before going to work for
easyJet, a low-cost airline in England, as Captain. He retired from easyJet in 2007.
George met his wife, Doris, in early 1986 while he was in San Antonio working on a joint venture
project for his company British Aerospace with an American aircraft company.
Since his air force days he had been flying old planes from Shuttleworth Museum in Old Warden
Village near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, in air shows every spring and summer. After
retiring from easyJet he continued to fly the old planes until 2009. He was 62.
In retirement he took over the cooking at home and joined a bicycle club. He loved to cook and
he loved his bicycle and his new friends in the club. He rode every day that the sun shined and
twice a week with his club. Most years he went to France with some of the members for a week
or two to ride the French country side.
Finally in 2015 they immigrated to the USA (Texas) so Doris could spend her last years close to
her children and grandchildren. It took quite a number of months to apply and receive his Green
Card which is the 'permission to live' in the USA. His plan was to wait the required 3 years and
apply to become a citizen. Just as he was about to be awarded his Green Card he was
diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and stunned to find he was already Stage 4. He decided it
would be less complicated to remain in England for the chemotherapy treatments and go to
Texas afterward. So in October 2017 George finally was able to move/or immigrate, to Texas.
He lived with Doris in New Braunfels for the last years of his life and was able to live a
reasonable retired life and ride his bicycle with his cancer right up to the point the cancer made
riding impossible. He always said it was less painful to pedal than to walk. He died on
May 28, 2019 at his home in New Braunfels, Texas.
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