From Rick:

"The South Bend Tribune", Sunday morning, July 3, 1955, page 36

Thomas Fenton Elder.

     Thomas Fenton Elder, 1522 Rockne Dr., owner of the Elder Supermarket, 1025 E. Madison St., died in Memorial Hospital at 2 p.m. Saturday.  He had been ill since January.  He was born in Cardendon, Scotland, March 23, 1905, and came here 13 years ago from Brazil, Ind.  He was married in 1934 in Vincennes, Ind., to Bertha Alice Doolittle, who survives.  He leaves also his father, Thomas R. Elder, of South Bend; two sons, Robert F., with the Navy at Great Lakes, and Fred T., at home; a sister, Mrs. Dom Scaicero, Calumet City, Ind., and four brothers, William R., Terre Haute, Ind.; Robert S. and Pete, Hammond, and James S., Glendale, Calif.  Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Welsheimer Funeral Home and until the funeral at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Sunnyside Presbyterian Church, Rev. Paul E. Chalfant, D. D., pastor, will officiate.  Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park.  Mr. Elder was a member of St. Joseph Lodge 45, F. & A.M.; the White Shrine of Jerusalem 10; Chapter 29, R.A.M.; South Bend Chapter 2 Order of the Eastern Star; the Scottish Orak Shrine of Hammond; the South Bend Shrine Club; the Drill Patrol of the Shrine Club of which he was a past president, and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon.  Graveside rites will be conducted by members of Lodge 45.