Elma Minear Tidwell died December 19, 2004 at her home in Yucaipa, California. 

Elma's daughter Sue Marshall Bellis writes:  My mother and her three sisters, Mabel Minear Blacketer '33, Ocie Minear McDowell '30, Beulah Minear Willard '36, and one brother, Foster Minear '38 were all graduates of South Pasadena High School.  My two brothers, Fred Marshall, Jr. '55 and Jack Marshall '64 and myself Susan Marshall Bellis '57 also graduated from South Pasadena High.

I know mother supported the alumni association.  She was a wonderful mother and we will all miss her terribly.  She would have been 91 in February.