D. Victoria Ellis, 82, of Princeton, NJ, died Friday, May 27, 2011 at Buckingham Place in Monmouth Junction, NJ. She was born on October 25, 1928, in Washington, D.C. to the late Walter Dympsie Toms and DeElla Broome Toms, and attended Dunbar High School in Washington, D. C. She received a B. A. degree from Howard University in 1948, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1953. She married Dr. Robert A. Ellis, Jr. in 1954. After teaching at Tennessee State University, she moved to Princeton, NJ with her husband. She worked at Educational Testing Service and taught German and English in the Princeton Regional Schools from 1956 until her retirement in 1993 with time away to raise her family.

Predeceased by her husband in 1989, she is survived by two sons; Robert A. Ellis, III of Ewing Township, NJ and Walter C. Ellis of Columbia, MD, two daughters; Dolores Meliani of Montclair, NJ and Julia Ellis of Hillside, NJ and six grandchildren; Kareem Meliani, Leila Meliani, Ko Bragg, Danielle Ellis, Andrew Ellis, and Linda Meliani.

A private interment will be held in the Princeton Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, 124 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, on June 24, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.