Elmer R Bullis, 74, 4254 Stevens Ave, Minneapolis, former resident of Sandstone, passed away last Thursday. Mr Bullis, son of the late Mr and Mrs Matt Bullis, was born at Sandstone May 15, 1890. He served as a Major in World War I and a Lt Colonel in World War II. He practiced law in Minneapolis many years and was an attorney for the Minneapolis Gas Co before retirement. He is survived by five sisters, (Daisy) Mrs Arthur Martin and (Madeline) [Madaline] Mrs Albert Johnson of Sandstone, (Lucie) Mrs Adrian Forstrom, Boulder City, Nev, (Grace) Mrs Raymond Harding, Superior, Wis, and (Lessie) Mrs Millard Garrison, Minneapolis; one brother, Judge A M Bullis of North Branch. His wife [Cora Ostrem Bullis] passed away four years ago. Services were held Monday at 11 am at Davies Mortuary, Minneapolis, and interment at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.

Elmer R Bullis was born of English and Irish parentage, on May 15th, 1890, in the quarry town of Sandstone, in Pine County, Minnesota. As a boy of four years, he escaped the holocaust of the Hinckley fire by a narrow margin when his parents found refuge in the Kettle River, a mile away from their home. As a youth he worked in the quarry there, graduated from High School, and went on to the University of Minnesota where he entered the Law School. He had played the cornet in the local village band, and so went on to become a member of the University Band; he later became a member of the Minneapolis Apollo Club. He joined the Phi Kappa Sigma Law Fraternity, of which he was Secretary and Treasurer and later became president of the Alumni Association.

Shortly after admission to the Bar, he set up a law office, with Harold Rogers, who became District Judge in Minneapolis. At the outbreak of World War I, he entered the first Officers Training Camp at Fort Snelling (Minneapolis MN). He was commissioned as a lieutenant, and trained further at Camp Dodge in Iowa. He was [a Major] with M Company, 351st Infantry Regiment in France at the termination of the war. Upon his return he was employed with Drake-Ballard Company of Minneapolis for a number of years, and upon leaving his employment there, went into the Law Firm of Nichols, Nash, Farnand and Mullins.

When World War II threatened, he spent much time in the training of Home Guards in Minneapolis, and when the war broke out he reentered the service, training at Fort Benning in Georgia, and was commissioned as a Captain. Much of the time of World War II he spent in Chicago as Provost Marshall, where his responsibilities concerned the thousands of service men who came to Chicago on transfers and furloughs each weekend, and also had to do with prisoners of war in Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. He was discharged from service after termination of the war with permanent rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

Upon his return to Minneapolis, he was employed as an attorney by the Minneapolis Gas Company and remained with them until retirement in 1955. He was widowed upon the death of his wife on February 1, 1961. During his retirement years he was interested in carrying on a little of his law practice from his home, and was actively engaged in probating an estate up until the day of his death. He passed peacefully away of heart failure on March 11th, 1965, and was interred at Fort Snelling Cemetery on March 15, 1965. He left a brother, Judge A M Bullis of North Branch, five sisters; Mrs M M Garrison of Minneapolis, Mrs Arthur Martin and Mrs Albert Johnson of Sandstone, Mrs Raymond Harding of Superior, Wisc, and Mrs A E Forstrom of Boulder City, Nevada.

Mr Bullis was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society of Minneapolis, of the Richfield American Legion Post No 435, of Phi Kappa Sigma Law Fraternity, and the Minnesota Bar Association.