Elva
Biography
Elva and Frank stood up with Ethel and Floyd at their wedding. They had four unnamed children and remained close family friends. Years after Ethel and Floyd died, Elva told Carol that the four went to dinner and a movie instead of a honeymoon. Stood up for Floyd and Ethel at their wedding with Frank Melton; remained their lifelong friend.
Timeline
November 6, 1928
Ethel and Floyd marry in Moline
Elva and Frank Melton stood up with them. The four went out for dinner and a movie after the wedding; Ethel and Floyd did not go on a honeymoon.
Carol's ChapterNovember 6, 1928
Floyd and Ethel's wedding
Married by a Justice of the Peace with Frank and Elva standing up for them. All went to a movie afterward.
History of the Guild Family
Stories mentioning Elva
- A Roller-Skating Beginning and a Legacy of CareMary Hill arranged Ethel and Floyd's blind date, and they went roller-skating. They married in Moline on November 6, 1928, with Elva and Frank Melton standing up with them, then celebrated with dinner and a movie rather than a honeymoon. Carol remembers their independent household responsibilities, relentless work in the Forties, kindness to neighbors, and family values demonstrated through everyday actions.
- Floyd and Ethel: Dancing, Work, and Seven ChildrenFloyd and Ethel met on a roller-skating blind date, courted through dancing and picnics, and married in Moline in 1928 with Frank Melton and Elva as attendants. They raised seven children. The passage says Floyd worked his entire life for John Deere, while also recording a roughly year-long Depression layoff when Lloyd helped him obtain WPA truck-driving work. Remembered as hardworking, playful, outspoken, and devoted to family, Floyd died of acute kidney failure in 1968 after an earlier severe stroke and is buried beside Ethel.
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