Remer Ellis Bland Obituary November 11, 2021 - Thomas C Strickland and Sons Funeral Home

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Remer Ellis

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November 11, 2021

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ORANGE PARK, FLORIDA

REMER ELLIS BLAND

Remer "Ellis" Bland of Orange Park, Florida, peacefully passed away on

Thursday, November 11, 2021at Haven Hospice after suffering from several

strokes and dementia.

Born in Savannah, GA on August 22, 1944, to Remer and Mattie Odell Smiley

Bland. He was a 1962 Graduate of Robert W. Groves High School and attended

Bolen Draughon's Business College in Savannah. He served his country in the Air

National Guard and retired from CSX Railroad after 44 years of service. After

retirement from the railroad, he started Ellis Bland Construction and was licensed

to build residential and commercial. However, remodeling was his passion. He

enjoyed taking the old and making it new and updated. He also enjoyed going on

many mission trips, with his church, First Baptist of Orange Park and with Liberty

Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, FL.

Besides his parents, he is pre-deceased by his brother-in-law, Robert E. Hartman of

Greenbriar, TN.

He is survived by his wife of 38 years, JoAnn DeWitt Bland, of Orange Park, FL;

Sons, John E. (Mary) Bland of Spartanburg, SC; Brian D. Bland of Clayton, NC;

Dustin B. (Kimberly) Bland of Green Cove Springs, FL and stepson, Clifton J.

Fortner of Brooklet, GA.; His grandchildren, Lindsay (Jonathan) Jackson, Jessica

Bland (Jeremy Bennett), Nicholas (Makayla) Bland, Megan (Gordon) Foster,

Laurel, Bryant, Joanna and Dylan Bland, and step granddaughter, Anna Fortner; 10

great grands: Madison, Mason, Hudson, Tucker, Emmett, Harper, Penelope,

Emma, Ethan and Oliver, his sister: Patricia Ann Hartman of Greenbriar, TN, as

well as nieces and nephews and the mother of his sons, John and Brian; Carol

Cook Ratliff of Milledgeville, GA.

The visitation will be on Monday, November 15, 2021 from 10 a.m. until 10:50 a.m. at the funeral home.

The graveside funeral and burial will follow at 11 a.m. at Gravel Hill Cemetery.

Thomas C. Strickland & Sons Funeral Homes - WEST CHATHAM CHAPEL - 901

West Highway 80 in Pooler.

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