Extracted from the Panola Watchman (Carthage, TX)
Thursday, June 27, 1968

Mrs. Elder Rites Held

Funeral rites for Mrs. Gladys Ivers Elder, 59, were held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Antioch Baptist Church. Services were held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Beaumont.

Rev. Basil Harrington officiated. Burial was in the Antioch Cemetery under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home.

Mrs. Elder died following a long illness in a Beaumont hospital. She was a native of Panola County.

Survivors include her husband, E. E. Elder, Sr.; three sons, E. E. Elder, Jr. of Los Angeles, Calif., John G. Elder of Longview, and Larry D. Elder of Beaumont; one daughter, Mrs. Nita Jean Eakin of California.

Also, one brother, Harry W. Spradley of Beaumont; one sister, Mrs. J. D. Jenkins of Beckville; and nine grandchildren.