Ellen Nell Wilson, 81, of Marion died Friday, December 26, 2003, at Johnson Hobson Nursing Home at Marion.

She was a retired from American Greeting and a member of St. John Missionary Baptist Church of Osceola and Mother's Board.

Survivors include three sons, Woodrow Wilson Jr. of Osceola, Samuel Wilson of Little Rock and Douglas Wilson of Rock Island, Ill.; nine daughters, Gloria Newsome of Hazelhurst, Miss., Lillie Jackson of Gary, Ind., Barbara Williams of Los Angeles, Gracie Bolden of Maywood, Ill., Silvia Nettles of Berkley, Ill., Ann Wilson of Houston, Texas, Lenora Wilson of Jonesboro, Elfreda Bledsoe of West Memphis and Valerie Mitchell of Knoxville, Tenn.; four sisters, Georgia Harris of Chicago, Ethel Birdie and Elizabeth Harris, both of Southbend, Ill., and Hattie Parker of Gary; two brothers, Horace Harris of California and Andrew Harris of Lepanto; 27 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church of Osceola, with the Rev. Robert Johnson officiating. Burial followed in Whiteside Cemetery at Osceola under the direction of Wilson Funeral Home of Osceola.