Obituary: The Eldon Advertiser, Thursday, December 15, 1949 Eli W. June, a former resident of Tuscumbia, died at his home in Kansas City, Kans., Wednesday evening, December 7. He had been ill for five weeks. Funeral services were held at Tuscumbia Christian Church Friday afternoon by Rev. John Jenkins, who was assisted by Rev. Clark Sanner, pastor of the Eldon Christian Church. Burial was in Tuscumbia Cemetery with Phillips funeral Home Service. Mr. June was born near Tuscumbia, February 8, 1873, the son of Albert and Mary June. January 29, 1899, he was married to Mrs. Nancy Tracy Enloe. They were the parents of two daughters, Stella May, who died in infancy and Myrtle Lee. Most of Mr. June's early life was spent in and near Tuscumbia. While employed on the U.S. Government Dredge boat on the Osage River in 1917, he was injured by a dynamite explosion which caused him to be partially blind and deaf. After the accident, he moved his family to Kansas City where he was employed by the H.D. Paner Company for 17 years until failing health forced him to retire. In 1938 Mrs. June was hit by an automobile and fatally injured. Five years ago he was married to Mrs. Helen Flintzer Waldow of Albert Lea, Minn., who survives him. Besides Mrs. June, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Holler of Kansas City; a step-daughter, Mrs. Clay Bilyeu of Eldon; a brother, Dave June of Tuscumbia; and three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mr. June was a member of Tuscumbia Christian Church.