Private graveside services for Elma Ileene Melton will be at the Alva Municipal Cemetery with Shonda Kooser and Burke Jones officiating. Interment is under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.

Elma Ileene Melton, daughter of the late Everette William and Alta Marie (Prigmore) Hofen, was born October 10, 1930, on the Hofen farm near Dacoma, Oklahoma, and passed away in Wichita, Kansas, December 9, 2018, at the age of 88 years, 1 month and 29 days.

Elma graduated from Dacoma High School with the Class of 1948. On October 10, 1950, she was united in marriage to James Albert Melton at h...