ELMORE, Kenneth M. 1880 - 1985
ELMORE, HICKS, THURSTON, FRAIN, PARKIN
Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 11/15/2012 at 11:40:38
"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, February 18, 1985K. M. ELMORE, 104
Kenneth M. ELMORE, probably the Fairfield area's oldest citizen, died this morning at the Parkview Home in Wayland. He was 104.
Funeral arrangements are pending at the Gould Funeral Home in Brighton.
A longtime resident of Brighton, ELMORE spent more than 40 years in the telephone business. He was a former Brighton mayor and tax assessor.
ELMORE was one of the nation's oldest Shriners. His Masonic affiliation dates from 1907 when he joined Clinton Lodge No. 15 in Fairfield. He joined the Shrine in 1909 and was the senior member of Kaaba Temple.
ELMORE was born April 14, 1880 in a log cabin near Knoxville, Tenn. His father emigrated from Jefferson County, Tenn., to Jefferson County, Iowa and by 1886 he had saved enough money to send for his family. Kenneth was the third of 10 children.
ELMORE observed his 100th birthday in 1980. At that time he maintained his own home, raised bees and drove his own car. He also hunted and fished.
"I can walk a half mile without any trouble," he told a Ledger reporter on his 100th birthday. "I drive at night once in a while but I don't like to...I tend to my own business...I have never been in jail and I have never had a ticket,...I have been driving since Model T days."
ELMORE was a hospital patient only three times in his life: once for an appendectomy in 1913 and twice for treatment of fractures.
Only recently did failing health cause him to give up many of his activities.
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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Tuesday, February 19, 1985ELMORE services at Brighton
BRIGHTON -- Services for K.M. ELMORE, 104, who died Monday morning at Parkview Home, Wayland, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Gould Funeral Home in Brighton with the Rev. A. P. Kidwell officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery, Brighton. Masonic services will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials have been established to the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children and the Iowa Heart Fund.
ELMORE was born April 14, 1880 in New Market, Tenn., the son of William and Martha ELMORE. He moved with his parents to Iowa in 1886. In 1909 he married Angie HICKS at Davenport. She died Aug. 10, 1951.
Surviving are a stepdaughter, Isabel THURSTON, Boulder, Colo.; two sisters, Elizabeth FRAIN and Hazel PARKIN, both in their 90s and residents of Parkview Home, Wayland; one brother, Golden of Citrus Heights, Calif. Five brothers and a sister preceded him in death.
ELMORE was a member of the former Brighton Christian Church, a former Brighton mayor, and manned the Brighton Telephone Company for 31 years.
He joined the Masonic fraternity in 1907 at Fairfield and in 1914 became a charter member of Naaman Lodge AF and AM in Brighton. He was a member of York Rite Bodies and Consistory, and Kaaba Shrine in Davenport, White Shrine in Washington and a 50-year member of Brighton OES.
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