Elma Esther Dick ¹

  General Notes:

Miles, Elma E. (Dick)
Mrs. Elma Miles Succumbs at 87; Buried Saturday

Funeral services were held Saturday in Weimar and Columbus for Mrs. Elma E. Miles, 87, who died at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 19, in a San Antonio nursing home.

Services were held at Hubbard Funeral Home here and burial was in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery at Columbus. Rev. Clarence James of Columbus officiated; Mrs. Miles was a member of the Baptist Church there.

Born April 2, 1882, at Columbus, Mrs. Miles was a daughter of Jacob J. and Susan Ann Campbell Dick. She was married to Milton Miles, who preceded her in death many years ago. For several years she lived in Weimar with her sister, Mrs. Frances Grunewald, moving to San Antonio about seven years ago.

Survivors are one son, Milton E. Miles, and a grandson Hugh V. Miles, both of San Antonio.

Pallbearers were Dewey Goode, Dewey Gerstenberg, Alvinoppe,[sic] Henry Poppe, Alvin Prause, Dewey Gerstenberg, all of Weimar; and Fritz Grunewald and Ellis Miller of Columbus.

Weimar Mercury, June 26, 1969, page 1

Elma married Milton Edgar Miles, son of Rev John Steen Miles and Sarah F. Duke. (Milton Edgar Miles was born in 1872 in Texas,² died on 27 Aug 1919 in Oakland, Colorado County, Texas ^{2 3} and was buried on 28 Aug 1919 in Live Oak Cemetery, Colorado County, Texas ^{2 3 4}.). The cause of his death was acute indigestion.