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http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/elvisonmymind/gladys/gladys.html
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http://members.tripod.com/sharoncarrell_1/gladys.html
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Although she bought that first guitar, Gladys did not push her son to be a performer. She didn't like the traveling Elvis did in his career. She worried he might have a wreck on the highway or die in a plane crash. It is said she was "excessively neurotic when it came to Elvis's
safety."
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Gladys was torn by Elvis' success. Success meant his removal from her daily life. Elvis called his mother daily from the road. Gladys kept a scrapbook of all of Elvis' achievements. She wished Elvis were satisfied with less success. She even encouraging him to come home and take up a local business like a furniture store.
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In August of 1958 Gladys Presley became ill and returned to Memphis. She was hospitalized with acute hepatitis. Elvis, serving in the Army at the time, was granted emergency leave and arrived in Memphis on the afternoon of August 12th. He visitd her that night, and the next day not leaving the hospital until sometime around midnight. A few hours after Elvis went home to Graceland for some rest Gladys died of liver disease. She was taken to Graceland that afternoon. Her services were at the Memphis Funeral Home on the 15th. Elvis had the Blackwood Brothers come to the funeral and sing "Precious Memories" and "Rock of Ages", two of Gladys Presley's favorite hymns. She was laid to rest at Forest Hill Cemetery, a few miles down the road from Graceland.
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