Anne Elledge was the beloved aunt of Ginny Canata, Mary Bristol, Betty Dendy, Sandra Huhn, Patricia White, Linda Sue Hawthorne, Judy Rogers, and Jimmy Elledge.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother, Walter and Madge Elledge of Fulton, MS; sisters, Grace Curry, Helen Jones, Blanche Fillingame; brothers, James Elledge and Frank Elledge; and many beloved nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews.
Anne began life in Mississippi, first in Corinth and then in Fulton, where she finished high school. Then came a major change from a tiny town to a bog world city when her father, a lawyer, took a job during WWII with the US Interior Department in Washington, DC. Anne quickly adjusted and was graduated from George Washington University with a B.S. in education and later a master’s degree in public personnel administration.
She began working for the US Civil Service Commission, and then transferred to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services), rising in time to be the Director of the Office of Personnel Policy.
Anne found mastering the bureaucracy in our nation’s capital challenging and exciting. However, after 38 years of government service, she retired with the HEW Department’s Distinguished Service Award, and also with the designation by the Public Health Service as an honorary Assistant Surgeon General, the first woman to be so honored.
For the next 20+ years in Washington, she supported much church and other voluntary humanitarian work for childcare of the needy, drug rehabilitation, adult literacy, and Meals on Wheels. Anne was a docent at the National Archives, and an officer of PEO, and organization promoting educational opportunities for women. She also enjoyed traveling to Western Europe (six trips), South America, Africa, and nearly all states and provinces in the USA and Canada.
She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Anne Moore Elledge died on January 28, 2017 at 3:15pm.
A memorial service will be held at Highland Farms in Black Mountain on February 4, 2017 at 11:00am.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to P.E.O Educational Loan Fund, 3900 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50312 or Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministries, PO Box 235, Black Mountain, NC 28711 or a ministry of your choice. You can dedicate the gift in memory of Anne Elledge.

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