News Article/Obituary: The Miller County Sentinel, September 16, 1954 A well known Miller County woman, Mrs. Gertrude O. Maylee, 48, of Eldon, was killed instantly late Friday afternoon when her car overturned three times and hurtled over an embankment a short distance east of the intersection of highways 17 and 54. The State Highway Patrol said Mrs. Maylee, rounding a curve heading toward Eldon on highway 54, veered off on the right shoulder, lost control of the car, swung across the highway and turned over three times before the car went over the 12-foot embankment. Mrs. Maylee, who was traveling alone in the 1954 model car, was thrown from the vehicle, and died of head injuries. She was returning from Wellsville, Mo., where she was employed to teach school. For many years Mrs. Maylee taught in the rural schools of Miller County. Prior to moving to Eldon, she and her husband, R.B. (Bob) and their two children resided in Tuscumbia where Mr. Maylee was Circuit of Miller County for two terms. For the past several years Mr. Maylee has been employed by Clark Bros. of Eldon as a car and farm implement salesman. She was a graduate of Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg. Her daughter, Mrs. John Vernon, teaches school at Richland. Robert, a son, was recently discharged from the Navy and plans to entger the University of Missouri. Also surviving are her father, Theodore Martin of Ulman and a brother, Frank Martin of Tuscumbia. Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday in the Eldon Christian Church and interment was in the Tuscumbia Cemetery. Obituary Gertrude Olive Maylee was born near Ulman, Mo., January 22, 1907, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore F. Martin, and died September 10, 1954, from injuries resulting from an automobile accident near Eugene, Missouri. She lived in Miller County all of her life with the exception of three and a half years after her marriage spent in Atchison, Kansas. She attended Central Missouri State College, Warrensburg, Mo., where she had been studying toward a degree in education. She had begun her 11th year of teaching when death came. Mrs. Maylee was a member of the Tuscumbia Christian Church, the Business and Professional Women's Club of Eldon, and the Miller Rebekah Lodge of Eldon. In 1953 and 1954 Mrs. Maylee taught in the elementary school system at Wellsville, Mo., and had begun her second year of teaching there at the time of her death. She was a devoted wife and mother and a well-known teacher in the schools of Miller County. She is survived by her husband, Robert B. Maylee, of Eldon; a daughter, Mary E. Vernon, a teacher in the Richland schools; a son Robert F. Maylee who has just completed a 4-years enlistment in the United States Navy; a brother, Frank C. Martin, of Tuscumbia, and her father, Theodore F. Martin, of Ulman. She was preceded in death by her mother several years ago and by a sister, Mrs. Arnold Shire, in October 1953.