Ellis' Final Days Made Colorful –Cagle

As the disease robbed Ellis of the ability to do the things he loved, such as traveling, boating and tennis, he developed an affinity for abstract painting. According to the Orlando Sentinel, his mother was an acrylic portrait artist and his two sisters were painters. But they encouraged Ellis to find his own canvas magic, expressed in abstracts of hot and cold. As a printer, color was the one thing he knew inside and out.