You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

Later he made a number of forays into the corporate world all of which failed from his lack of business acumen. In 1944 he left to become chairman of the Diebold Corporation a security safe company based in Ohio. Ness's aEliot Nesss were scattered in one of the small ponds on the grounds of Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.