Obituary - Sedalia Democrat, 26 November 1976 Eldon L. Vollrath Eldon Lee Vollrath, 64, 1618 East Seventh, died Friday at the Demand Boarding House, Smithton. He was born June 25, 1912, in Pettis County, son of the late Emil C. and Mary Shaw Vollrath. On Jan. 14, 1939, he married Miss Ruth DeWitt, who survives of the home. He was a life-long farmer and a member of the Hickory Point Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the Ewing Funeral Home with the Rev. George Turner officiating, assisted by the Rev. Raymond Knox. Burial will be in the Salem Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.