Elmer Beach 1879-1947

BEACH, WHEATON, BOLEI, HOLMES

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 2/2/2017 at 09:41:04

2 October 1947 - The Clarence Sun

Elmer Edwin "Bob" Beach, 521 Seventh avenue SE, a Cedar Rapids resident for the last 35 years and a chemist at Penick and Ford for the last 12 years, died at 9:15 p.m. Friday following a brief illness. He was born April 19, 1879, at Iron Mountain, Mich. and spent considerable of his boyhood in Clarence.

Mr. Beach served in the 32nd division field artillery for two years and one month during World War I, and was overseas most of that time.

Surviving in addition to his wife, the former Arlene Wheaton of Tipton, are two brothers, Morris B. and Herschel L. Beach, and two sisters, Mrs. Erma Bolei and Mrs. Alice Holmes, all of Cedar Rapids.

Mr. Beach was a member of the Presbyterian church, Mizpah lodge, A.F. and A.M., Iowa Consistory, El Kahir Shrine, V.F. W. post 788, Hanford post, American Legion and the Eagles lodge in Cedar Rapids.

Services were conducted in the Turner chapel at 1:30 p.m. Monday by the Rev. Andrew E. Kurth, pastor of Westminster Presbyterian church, and Mizpah lodge, A. F. and A.M. Burial was in Cedar Rapids Memorial cemetery, where military services were conducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

The date of his birth as given here would make him 65 years old. Clarence acquaintances think this is too high.