Extracted from: The Flint Journal 7 September 1961 by Patrick McCleary 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.]