Pastor Elton Lee Waller

Elton Lee Waller fearlessly and quietly took his first flight ever when he went home to be with the lord on Monday, October 2, 2017.

Elton Lee Andres Waller was born on September 20, 1933 to Homer Lee and Louise (Comer) Waller in Brentwood, Tennessee, both who preceded him in death along with his sister Ruby Waller Young.

Elton received his formal education at Haynes High School in Nashville, Tennessee and earned Bachelor and Masters Degrees from Emmanuel Bible College.
On February 9, 1956 he was married to the former, Sarah Beatrice Braden and lived with her in harmony until her death in 2005. They were the parents of three sons and a daughter.

Elton accepted his calling into the ministry in December of 1970 and preached his first sermon in January of 1971 at Edmondson Chapel Baptist church. His sermon was entitled "He Will Deliver Me".

His pastoral experience began at Lilly Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Riddleton, TN. In later years he became the pastor of Gravel Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Bethpage, TN.

In 1981 Elton Lee Waller was named pastor of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church where he served faithfully until this current year when his health began to fail. Pastor Waller dedicated 36 years of faithful service to the Shiloh Church family including his wife, children and grand-children. Pastor Waller mentored and nurtured numerous sons and daughters in the ministry, two of which are his birth sons as well. Pastor we salute you! We honor you! We respect you! We are grateful to you and we celebrate your faithfulness.

Pastor Waller will be sadly missed by many but most profoundly by his loving family. He is survived by children, Phillip N. Scales, Sylvia (Clinton, Sr.) Saffell, Gerald (Sheila) Waller and Carlton (Sharonda) Waller; grand-children, Taron Scales and D J Scales, Gerald M. Waller, Sylvia (Edward) Philips, Carlton (CJ) and Takara Waller, Clinton Jr, Erick Saffell, AJ Saffell and Keiona Horton; sister, Vera (Amos) Hunt; sister in law, Geraldean Smith; brother in law, Reverend Edward (Sheila) Anderson; numerous great-grandchildren other relatives and friends; very devoted friends, Anita Jones, Mildred Saffell-Smith, Leonard and Dorothy Dunn, Ola and Thomas Horn, Minister Dale Kimbro, Prince Peters, Jessie Joe Hill, Eddie Hill, Willie Terrell, Leslie Patterson, Bettie Mai Lewis, Catherine Williams, Vernice Stovall, Christena Scales, Maggie Wilson, Clara Page and Ector Arnold; and the entire Shiloh Baptist Church family especially the willing workers ministry.