Extracted from:
The
Flint Journal
7 September 1961
WHITMAN- Elmer A. Whitman, 919 Gladwyn, age 88, died Wednesday, September 6, 1961, at
Hurley Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 1 PM Saturday, September 9, 1961 from the
Reigle Funeral Home, Sunset
Chapel, 4305 Clio Road, at
Stewart Drive. E.H. Longman officiating. Burial in
Flint Memorial
Park Cemetery. Mr. Whitman will remain at the funeral home.
He was born in
Alaska Township,
Michigan August 11, 1873. He was a member of UAW, 659, The Retirees Club, being the oldest retired member at the
McKinley Senior Citizens Club. Mr. Whitman was employed at Chevrolet Manufacturing for 36 years, retiring in 1950. He was the first member to retire on GM-UAW
Pension Plan, UAW Local 659. Surviving are: Wife, Evelyn of Flint; three sons, Charles, Arthur and Guy of
Swartz Creek; three daughters, Mrs. Marion Townsend of Oakland, California; Mrs. Marjorie Knopf of Flint; and Mrs. Rose
Mackey of Detroit; 20 grandchildren; 19 greatgrandchildren; 2 great-great grandchildren.
[*Note: Elmer Arthur
Whitman was the son of early
Otsego County Pioneers, Reverend Barnabus
Horton Whitman and his wife Mary Jane
Wells Whitman. Art spent all of his growing up years in and around the Charlevoix and
Otsego County area. His first wife was Daisy
Ackert of
Charlevoix County. His second wife was Evelyn "Eva"
Fullmer of Elmira.]