Glenn C. Elder Takes His Life
Services for Glenn C. Elder will be tomorrow afternoon at 2 at the Meirhoffer-Fleeman chapel, the Rev Isaac Elder officiating. They are not related. Burial will be at Oregon, MO.
Mr. Elder, a 42-year-old painter, was found dead late yesterday afternoon in a room at the Artis Hotel, 609 S. 8th street. He had hanged himself from a light fixture.
Coroner H.F. Mundy certified the death as suicide, caused by strangulation, and said that it had probabky taken place about 1:30 yesterday morning, one hour after he registred at the hotel. He had reportedly been despondent and in ill health.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Mittie Elder, St Joseph; one son, Bert Elder, with the Air Force in St Louis; one daughter, Miss Mae Elder; and three brothers, Lee, Robert ad Russell Elder, all of St Joseph.
- St Joseph News Press, Friday Sept 22, 1950 pg 50

Committed suicide in the Artie Hotel, 1613 1/2 Frederick Ave., 64501 Death certificate lists him as divorced with a "3" beside it. Says he was born in Holt Co., Missouri. All info was provided by Mrs. Mittie Elder, his mother. Says he was a resident of St. Joe for 35 years, so he moved there in about 1925.
Committed suicide in the Artie Hotel, 1613 1/2 Frederick Ave. Death certificate lists him as divorced with a "3" beside it. Says he was born in Holt Co., Missouri. All info was provided by Mrs. Mittie Elder, his mother. Says he was a resident of St. Joe for 35 years, so he moved there in about 1935.

• Married: BET 1927 AND 1928

• Married: BEF 1950

1. May Elder b: AFT 1930
2. Bert Marvin Elder b: 11 JAN 1929 in Clarksdale, De Kalb, Missouri, USA

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