VELTA ELAINE ELDRED

March 21, 2018

GOLDEN CITY- Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Golden City Baptist Church for Velta Elaine Eldred, 101, Golden City, who died Monday, March 19, 2018, at Cox Barton County Hospital, surrounded by family. The family will receive friends prior to the service, beginning at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Dudenville Cemetery.

Arrangements are under the direction of Daniel Funeral Home, Lamar.

Memorial contributions are suggested to Lamar Lions Club, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include a sister, Edna Mae Morrison, Orange, Calif.; son Bill Eldred and wife Rosemary, Butler, daughter Bonnie Higgs, Windsor, daughter-in-law Carol Eldred, Golden City, daughter Sharon Julian and husband Keith, Lockwood, daughter Sandra Pyle and husband Bob, Stockton, daughter Shirley Bull and husband Sam, Lamar and daughter Debra Salzman, Webb City; 25 grandchildren, 55 great-grandchildren, 27 great-great-grandchildren and a multitude of cousins, nieces and nephews. She leaves this world known to scores of people simply as “Grandma Elaine”.

She was preceded in death by Wade, her husband of 49 years; sisters Ressie Greer, Elsie Bridges and Goldena Stallings; brothers Alfred Jones, Jessie Jones, Leo Jones, Lawrence Jones, H. Wilfred Jones and Clifton Jones; sons Jim Eldred and infant Donald Eldred; grandsons Rick Eldred and Michael Higgs and son-in-law David Higgs.

Mrs. Eldred was born March 17, 1917, in Louisburg, to William Radford and Jemima Elizabeth (Williams) Jones. She grew up in that area, one of 11 children. She attended Carter School near Louisburg and Huckabee School at Urbana. At age 13 she was baptized at Lindley Creek near Urbana and was a faithful follower of Jesus her entire life and a member of the First Baptist Church of Golden City at the time of her death.

She married Earl Wade Eldred on October 17, 1937, in Polk County and later moved to Golden City where they lived their life farming. She was an integral part of the farm, raising large gardens, assisting her husband with chores and for a period of time, running a route delivering fresh milk in the Golden City area. In 1977 she and her husband acquired Cooky’s Cafe in Golden City and operated it in partnership with several of her children until her retirement in 1987, following which she lived independently for the remainder of her years. She was an avid gardener, accomplished quilter and a very skilled cook with a pie baking skill second to none. She loved playing cards and did so at every opportunity, participating in a weekly card game with her friends up to the final weeks of her life.



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