----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 10/18/1978

WALTER ELMER
 

Walter A. Elmer, 86, who moved from New Berlin a few months ago to Cooper, Texas, died there Tuesday, Oct. 3, 1978 at the Delta Nursing Home from a lingering illness.. The funeral was held at the Larsen Bros. Funeral Chapel at New Berlin on Oct. 8 at 3 p.m. Pastor Mart Moores from the Waukesha Seventh Day Adventist Church, of which he was a member, officiated. Burial was at High Memorial Park in New Berlin.

Mr. Elmer was born Oct. 15, 1891 at Columbus, Wis. At the age of 11 he came to Greenwood, Clark County, Wis. with his parents. At the age of 18 he spent some time working with the railroad and ranching in Montana and the Dakotas. He then returned to Milwaukee where he was street car conductor for several years, after which he attended barber s school and barbered for 10 years in Milwaukee. Before retiring he did carpenter work and was affiliated with Carpenter s Union Local 2073.

On March 24, 1929 he married Ella Abel from Greenwood. To this union were born three children. Surviving him are his wife Ella, a son Keith from a former marriage to Thelma Alton, a son Walter (Bud) Elmer, Jr., Mountain View, Calif., Mrs. Floyd (Dolores) Knecht, Cooper, Texas and Mrs. Lester (Shirley) Graves, New Berlin, Wis. five sisters, Mrs. Ellen Finkle, Simi, Calif., Ms. Olive Verlindi, Gresham, Oregon, Mrs. Emory (Viola) Gesme, Madison, Mrs. Charles (Dorothy) Mueller, Mukwona, Ga., and Mrs. Pearl Hall, Nalcrest, Florida and two brothers, Ernest of Greenwood and Fred, Las Vegas, Nevada. His parents and three brothers preceded him in death.