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Elvis Presley : August 14, 1958 : The Death of Gladys Love Presley

August 8, All though the summer Gladys has been feeling ill.

As her condition worsens Elvis insists that she do something about it, putting his parents on a train to memphis so that she can see her personal physician, Dr. Charles Clarke.

August 9, Responding to an 11.30am emergency call, an ambulance transports Mrs. Presley from Graceland to Methodist Hospital, where her condition is listed as grave. Elvis completes Advanced Tank Training.

August 11, Elvis commences his Basic unit Training.

August 12, After more effort than it would take for any ordinary soldier, including calls from Gladys' Doctor to military personnel in Washington and Elvis' desperate threat to go AWAOL, Elvis is finally granted emergency leave, flying from Fort Worth to Texas with Lamar Fike and going straight to the hospital.

August 13, Vernon remains at his wife's side throughout the night, while Elvis after spending the evening at home, returns in the morning and again in the afternoon, not leaving until close to midnight.

Alan Fortas, Lamar Fike, George Klein, Elvis Presley, Billy Smith and Louis Harris, pictured sat round a table in the hospital conference room waiting for news of Elvis' mother's condition.

Elvis Presley : August, 1958 : Methodist Hospital

August 14, At approximately 3.15am, with her husband at her side Gladys Love Presley dies.

Gladys Love Presley was 46. Both Elvis and Vernon are inconsolable.

In the early afternoon with hundreds of fans at the gates, Gladys is brought home to Graceland. Elvis wants the funeral conducted at the house but the Colonel convinces Elvis that security will not be able to be effectively maintained and arrangements are made to have the service at The Memphis Funeral Home.

August 15, Gladys funeral is held at 3:30pm. Elvis sobbed hysterically while Gladys' favourite gospel group, the Blackwood Brothers, performed at the service in the Memphis Funeral Home, and he was equally inconsolable at her Forest Hill Cemetery grave site, crying out, 'Oh God, everything I have is gone'. Elvis leans over the grave, crying out, inconsolably, 'Goodbye, darling, goodbye. I love you so much. You know how much I lived my whole life just for you'. The mourning continued through the next few days as Elvis was granted extended leave. Evidently his fans were grieving too -- they sent him more than 100,000 cards and letters, around 500 telegrams, and more than 200 floral arrangements to express their sympathy for his loss.

Still, even though it would never be the same, life had to carry on.

Vernon and Elvis Presley : August 14, 1958.

August 16, Elvis insists upon attending the funeral of Red West's Father who died the previous day. later in the afternoon Elvis insists on visiting his mothers grave.

August 18, Elvis' seven-day leave is extended for five more days, during which the Memphis Highway Patrol tries to cheer Elvis up by giving him helicopter rides over Graceland and the city.

The Memphis Highway Patrol tries to cheer Elvis up with helicopter rides over Graceland

August 24, Elvis returns to Fort Hood, leaving instructions that nothing is to be altered in his mothers room.

September 11, Elvis is assigned to the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32nd Armor, 3rd Armored Division in what was then known as West Germany. September 19, Elvis leaves Fort Hood on a troop train bound for the Brooklyn Army Terminal in New York. September 22, The troop train arrives in Brooklyn at 9.00am.

Elvis Presley : Elvis visits his mothers grave at Forest Hill Cemetery : March 8, 1960

Elvis returns to visit his mothers grave at Forest Hill Cemetery on August 17, 1958. [Follow the funeral of Red Wests Father].

January 1958

Elvis Presley : January 8, 1958 : With Eight-year-old Mary Kosloski

March

Elvis and Anita Wood looked at new auto-mobiles : March 19, 1958
Elvis with Gladys & Vernon + Army Induction : March 24, 1958
Elvis fan letter to President Eisenhower
Elvis Presley: Inside King Creole
Elvis Presley In The U.S. Army 1958-1959
Elvis in the U.S. Army in colour

June

Elvis Presley : June 1, 1958 : Outside Graceland

August

Elvis Presley: August, 1958 : Methodist Hospital
August 14, 1958
August 13, 1958 : Waiting at the Hospital for word on his Mothers condition

October

Elvis Presley : Ray Barracks, Germany : October 2-3, 1958
Elvis Presley : Ritters Park Hotel, Bad Homburg, Germany : October 1958

November

Elvis Presley : Grafenwoehr, Germany : November 28, 1958

The Movies In Photos

Elvis Presley: Inside King Creole

DVDs

King Creole

Elvis : The Ed Sullivan Show : The Classic Performances DVD
The Milton Berle Show DVD
Elvis : The King Of Rock n Roll 30 Hit Performances And More DVD

CDs

King Creole CD
Elvis At SUN
Elvis Presley
Elvis
The Million Dollar Quartet
Loving You FTD Special Edition 2 CD
Jailhouse Rock Volume 1 FTD Special Edition 2 CD
Jailhouse Rock Volume 2 FTD Special Edition 2 CD
50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong : FTD Special Edition
The King Of Rock 'N' Roll : The Complete 50's Masters
Elvis' Golden Records CD
Elvis' Christmas Album CD

Books

Elvis : Rock, Sex and Roll
The Elvis Files Vol. 2 1957-1959 : Hardcover Book
King Creole : Frame By Frame : Deluxe Hardcover Book : 400 pages
Elvis : King Creole [JAT Publising] Hardcover Book
King Creole : The Music : FTD Book & CD
Jailhouse Rock : Frame By Frame : Deluxe Hardcover Book : 400 pages
Elvis à Paris
A Date With Elvis : The Army Years Revisited
Elvis Like Any Other Soldier Hardcover Book
The Ultimate Elvis In Munich Book

Jailhouse Rock Hardcover Book : JAT Publishing
Flashback Book + 2 CDs
Elvis In Gold : 1957
Elvis Presley : The Family Album Book

The Movies of 1958

1958, King Creole, Paramount

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