Title: Elmer's world
Description: "The true story of Elmer Focke, son of a meat packer, soldier in World War I, and husband of a Broadway star. Rejecting a life in the family meat packing business, Elmer desired to be his own person and became a lawyer. After witnessing the horrors of warfare in France during World War I, he came home a changed man. Now valuing the security of family, he went to work in the family business and fell in love with Marie, a woman he heard singing on the radio each night. Elmer and Marie had six children and countless grandchildren. They experienced the social changes of the modern world throughout their long life together, yet through it all they remained a butcher's son and a Broadway songbird." --
Subjects: Soldiers, Biography, World War, 1914-1918, History
Places: Ohio, Dayton, United States
People: Elmer Focke, Focke family
Time periods: 20th century