Alva M. Mort, GW #199

Alva Marie Mort 4 August 1923 in Ohio to William and Grace (Fox) Mort.  William was a paper cutter at the Union Gospel Press, according to his WWII draft registration in 1942.  In 1940, the Mort family lived just around the corner from the Union Gospel Press, and sixteen-year-old Alva was a Gospel Worker, living with the other Gospel Workers.  In 1951 Alva married Lloyd Harvey Musselman, son of preacher Elvin Haddon Musselman and grandson of Gospel Worker Society founder William B. Musselman.  Alva and Lloyd had at least two children:   Ruthanne and Paul.  The Musselman marriage did not last; Alva and Lloyd divorced.  Alva later married Harry M McCartney by whom she had at least one child:  Bruce McCartney.  Alva died on 25 September 1981 in Westlake, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and is buried in Coe Ridge Cemetery in North Olmsted, Ohio.  It appears she may have lived in Ohio her whole life.