Diane M. Ellis, a 35-year veteran of the retail industry who ran Chico’s, The Limited and Brooks Brothers, died Friday morning in a tragic car accident. Ellis was 68.
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Ellis was driving on Pennsylvania highway Route 36 on her way to an exercise class when a tree fell and landed on the driver’s section of the car, killing her, according to her husband, John W. Ellis Jr. She was alone in the car. Diane Ellis lived in Pleasantville and Pittsburgh, Pa., as well as in Estero, Fla…