The Topeka Daily Capital Saturday March 24, 1951 Mrs. Myrtle M. Elwell. Mrs. Myrtle M. ELWELL, 73, wife of Riley M. Elwell, 1202 Seward, died Friday morning in a Topeka hospital. She was born May 15, 1877, in Melbourne, Iowa, and had been a resident of Topeka 30 years. She was a member of Beulah Chapter No. 34, OES, the Social Order of the Beauceant and the Capitalo Rebekah Lodge. Besides her husband, she is survived by two sons, Charles C. Elwell, Topeka and Walter R. Elwell, who is with the United States Air Force in Germany, two grandsons and one great-granchild.