George and Ida Mae Ellis – Going on Flight 9
George and Ida Mae Ellis The Ellis’ will be part of Honor Flight of Southern NM’s Mission 9 to Washington, DC this year. Ida Mae grew up with a healthy sense of determination in a small Pennsylvania town. After high school graduation she relates, “One day my friend and I decided we were going to go down and join the army. She didn’t pass the physical so I went by myself…. of course my mother wasn’t too happy when I told her what I did…it worked out okay though.” She trained a
