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Obituary for Ellen Carol Newby-Hines (Newby)

Ellen Carol  Newby-Hines (Newby)
Ellen C. Newby-Hines, age 65, has accepted an invitation to serve in Heaven. We expect to find Ellen there within a loving community that of many of her family including her father, Donald O. Newby, her mother, May Newby-Bennett., and daughter, Michelle Price Hines. Her gracious loving spirit will dwell in our hearts for all of our days.

Ellen came to this world November 24, 1952 in Springfield, Missouri. She departed from this world on December 11, 2017. Ellen was the second of five children of Don and May Newby. Although born in Springfield, Ellen and her family lived in numerous locations in the U.S., Africa and Europe during her childhood. She chose to attend college at Drury University and ultimately adopted Springfield as her home. She earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Education and taught Special Education at various schools around Springfield. Ellen also worked as an educator in the field of vocation rehabilitation. She worked at Ozark Technical College (OTC) for 20 years serving as the Director of the TLC, teaching occasional classes, and as an academic advisor supporting students and their transition and adjustment into college life. Ellen retired from OTC in June 2017.

In 1998, Ellen and Jim Hines were married and have been soulmates in many shared activities and interests. They have been hosts to out-of-town family on many occasions and could often be heard teasing one another and sharing humor in stories of everyday life. She thoroughly enjoyed dancing with Jim and watercolor painting.

Ellen and Jim have been members of Schweitzer United Methodist church for over 20 years. Ellen was an active member in the community of faith-serving, mentoring, ministering, and outreach missions of the church.
Ellen loved exploring the world through people, travel, and reading. She was very devoted to family providing support in many ways to Jim and her children as well as her siblings and caring for her mother, May, in later years. Throughout the years, Ellen fell in love with a number of people who had need for a family and she quickly adopted them into her family.

Ellen loved exploring the world through people, travel and reading. She loved animals of all kinds—her chameleons and turtles, dogs and cats she had in childhood, riding horses, and petting the sea turtles in St. Thomas. Rocky and Tasha, the Hines family dog and cat had her heart.

Ellen is survived by her husband Jim Hines, three children and their families: Shelley Kimery of Springfield, her daughter’s and son, Marissa, Trey and Rheanne and a great-grandson, Marissa’s son Hudson; Samantha Hines Meier of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and her husband Avi and granddaughter, Maddie; Chris Hines of Springfield and his wife Gina and grandchildren Ashley, Chris and Gianna. Ellen is survived by one sister and three brothers and their families: Donna Jean Newby-Bennett and Gary Bennett of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Daniel Andrew Newby and Lucy Núñez of Barcelona, Spain; Timothy William Newby and Linda Newby of Dallas, Texas; and Peter Milton Newby and Mary Gebhart of Minneapolis, Minnesota; as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Ellen is also survived by sister-in-law Sandra Vaughn of Cary, North Carolina, her husband Leigh and their family.

Visitation is scheduled Friday, December 15th from 6-8 p.m. at Greenlawn Funeral Home (South). A celebration of Ellen Newby Hines's life will be held Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at the Greenlawn Funeral Home (South), 441 West Battlefield in Springfield, Missouri, with burial following at the Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, 3506 North National, Springfield. All who knew her are invited to be with us.

In lieu of flowers, please make memorial contributions to one of the following: Doctors Without Borders (donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/) or Heifer International (www.heifer.org/). Contributions to these charities can be made on line on the respective organization’s website.

We are so very grateful for Ellen’s life and the many contributions she has made and the many people she has touched through her work, church and family life. We will remember her for her zest for life, interacting with everyone she met, coaching and cheerleading all of us in our desire to learn and grow, for her empathetic ear and ongoing love and support. She will be forever in our hearts and greatly missed.

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