Daily American Republic, Poplar Bluff, MO Tuesday, August 25, 1964

William Elder,
Local Resident,
Dies at Campbell

	William Westley Elder, 76 year
old local resident, died yesterday
morning at the Campbell, Mo.,
Rest Home. He had lived at 208
N. “B” Street here.
   He was born in Wayne County 
on March 6, 1888.  He was a 
member of the True Church of
God.
   Surviving him are two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Gertie Batten of Ann
Arbor, Mich., and Mrs. Bessie
Pilcher of Poplar Bluff; five
sisters, Mrs. Eddie Griffith of
Poplar Bluff, Mrs. Katie Marler
of Senath, Mrs. Myrtle Nice-
wonger of Neelyville, Mrs. Bertha
Davis of Thomasville, MO., and
Mrs. Blanch Laton of Mountain
View, Mo.; seven grandchildren
and 16 great-grandchildren.
   Funeral services will be held 
tomorrow afternoon at 2 at the
Kime Church near Greeville, the 
Rev. J. C. White officiating. Bur-
ial in the Central Ridge Ceme-
tery.
   Frank-Cotrell Funeral Home in
charge.