Elmer Leroy Maddux was born May 6, 1934, to Oren Elmer and Norma Lorraine Maddux on a farm north of Mooreland. He departed this life on Nov. 20, 2019, at the age of 85.

From a very young age he was responsible for a broad range of chores on the farm, including milking the dairy cows twice a day, having the house warm by the time the family awakened by building a fire in the Warm Morning stove. When the work was done he would get ready for school and walk over a mile to the one-room Dillon Country School and this continued through the seventh grade when the Dillon School was consolidated into t...