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Show 285 Hospital, on whose board of directors Ellis served for quite a number of years, is currently completing construction of a new "birthing center," scheduled to open in 1984. Its various rooms will be named after early Utah women. One of those rooms will be known as the ELLIS REYNOLDS SHIPP room. In her later years, there were birthday luncheons and receptions in the Lion House, and she was featured in a special laudatory program by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Many fine things were said, and every attempt was made to demonstrate to her that she was truly one of Utah's great ladies. One of the D.U.P. officers said: Among the women of this state, Dr. Ellis Reynolds Shipp is outstanding. She has sacrificed health, money, time, the association of loved ones, and pleasure to administer to the sick, to those who needed her.16 Her 91st birthday was probably the most splendid of the entire number of natal celebrations she had enjoyed throughout her life. It might well have been deliberately so, for Ellis was beginning to die. No one mentioned it, but surely those who arranged the outpourings of love and appreciation must have felt that it would be their last chance. It really was, for though Ellis lived to see another birthday, it was noted quietly, with a simple announcement in the newspaper that she would be at home in her daughter Ellis Musser's house at 1320 Michigan Avenue for anyone who would care to call on her. Later, Kate B. Carter, in writing a tribute to Ellis, said that she had a cancer appear on her neck, and that she never questioned why-after relieving the suffering of others throughout |
