Graveside funeral service for Robert L. Ellis, 61, former Lawton resident, will be 2:00 p.m. Friday in Sunset Memorial Gardens with Shane Hall, Pastor, First Baptist Church officiating. Mr. Ellis died May 4 in Houston, Texas. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. He was born June 26, 1949 in Giessen, Germany to Lauren A. and Mary Belle (Franks) Ellis. He was a graduate of both Lawton High School and Cameron University. Robert had worked for Fairmont Creamery in Lawton and later worked with Borden's Milk Company in Tulsa as a milk route driver. He would later transfer to Houston, Texas, where he continued to work for Borden's. He held a bachelor's degree in education and obtained his Texas teaching certificate through Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls. He had taught school in Duncan and for many years worked as a substitute teacher in Houston. He was a Methodist and for many years participated in the cast of the Easter Pageant at the Holy City of the Wichitas. He is survived by two brothers and a sister in law, Claiborn W. and Gloria Ellis, Chino, California, and Nathan A. Ellis, Lawton; a niece, Erin Mattews; two nephews, Jonathan and Mark Ellis; a great nephew, Stevie Mattews and a great niece, Faith Ellis. His parents preceded him in death.