Ellen Newsom
Posted: January 21, 2022
STARKVILLE — Ellen Franks Newsom, 79, died Jan. 18, 2022.
Private family services will be at the Church of Resurrection. Inurnment will be at the church columbarium. A public memorial and celebration of life service will be held at a later date. Welch Funeral Home of Starkville is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Newsom was born April 8, 1942, in Baltimore, Maryland, to the late Alice and Wendell Franks. She was a 1964 graduate of the University of Michigan and was formerly employed as a registered nurse with the New York Department of Public Health, Starkville Children’s Clinic, and Camp Bratton Green. She was a member of the Church of the Resurrection.
She is survived by her husband, Walter Newsom of Starkville; children, Matt Newsom of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Emily Cook of Bartlett, Tennessee; siblings, Dan Franks of Clearwater, Florida, and Martin Franks of Washington, DC; and four grandchildren.