This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Elder--Cottrille--Wilson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QRB.2ACI/2062.1 Message Board Post: I found the obit on William E. Elder in Reno Gazette films for Friday, January 05, 1950:" William E. Elder Taken by Death---William E. Elder, 55, retired resident of Reno for the last two years, died Tuesday in a local hospital. A native of Harrisville, WV, he was born April 10, 1894. Mr. Elder was the husband of Mrs. Grace M. Elder of Reno, father of W. E. Elder of Raleigh, NC, brother of R.W. Elder, Jr. of South Parkersburg, WV, L.C. Elder of Cairo, WV, Olive Cottrille of Pennsboro, WV, W.E. Elder of Marietta, OH, W.R. Elder of Arizona, and Rebecca Wilson of Harrisville, WV. He was a veteran of World War 1 and a member of the American Legion. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11a.m. in the Ross-Burke Co. chapel with the Rev. Mark Pike officiating. Burial will be in the veterans plot of Mountain View Cemetery. ****Mountain View Cemetery, 435 Stoker Ave. Reno, NV 89502 phone (775) 329-9231------Ross Burke & Knobel Mortuary 2155 Kietzke Lane Reno, NV 89503 phone (775) 323-4154.*****