Minnie May Elmore

© Enid News and Eagle

05-1982

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

Alva – Funeral services for Minnie May Elmore, 98, who died Monday night in her home, will be at 2 PM Thursday in the Otterbein United Methodist Church with the Rev. Torrey Curtis officiating.

Mrs. Elmore will be buried in the Alva Municipal Cemetery, with arrangements under the direction of the Wharton Funeral Chapel in Alva.

She was born October 23, 1883, at Mulvane, Kansas, the daughter of Louanna and O. G. Ross. While she was a small child the family moved near Springfield, Colorado, later to Protection, Kansas.

In 1895, the family Homesteaded 10 miles northwest of Alva. She attended Northwestern State Normal School. She and C. T. Elmore were married December 29, 1901, at Capron.

They made their home on a farm his family had homesteaded northwest of Alva where they lived until his death on November 23, 1950.

She moved to Alva in August, 1951. Mrs. Elmore was a charter member of the Mirabile United Brethren Church, then the Alva United Brethren Church which later became the Otterbein Church. She was also a member of the New Era Club, the WCTU and the Jolly Housewives Extension Club.

She taught Sunday school classes and was a lay leader of the Alva church for several years.

Mrs. Elmore was preceded in death by a son Archie August 10, 1975 and a nephew she had raised, Harland Ross; a sister; two brothers; a half sister; three half – brothers.

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