GOODBYE TO GLADYS PRESLEY
On August 8, Gladys Presley falls ill and returns to Memphis by train where she is hospitalized with acute hepatitis. Elvis is granted emergency leave and arrives in Memphis on the afternoon of August 12. He visits her that night, and the next day and night. Just hours after Elvis returns to Graceland to rest, she dies in the early hours of August 14 at age 46. Her body is taken to Graceland in the afternoon. Services are held at the Memphis Funeral Home on the 15th, with the Blackwood Brothers singing “Precious Memories” and “Rock of Ages,” two of Gladys Presley’s favorite gospel hymns. She is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, a few miles down the road from Graceland. Elvis is devastated. On August 24, Elvis returns to Fort Hood.
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DESTINATION GERMANY. PRIVATE PRESLEY. ARMY SERIAL NUMBER: 53310761
On September 10, 1958, Elvis boards a troop train bound for New York on September 19, and later boards the USS Randall that will take him to Germany, arriving on October 1. He will be stationed in Friedberg for 18 months, staying in an off-base residence in Bad Nauheim, shared with his father, his grandmother and friends from Memphis. The payment of the rent for this residence is the responsibility of Elvis himself. Doing his military service in Germany allows Elvis to meet fans in Europe who are just as enthusiastic as those in the US.
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