Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Melvin, Edward  1967
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, July 1, 1967


Edward Estel Melvin, 54, died suddenly late Friday afternoon, suffering a heart 
attack as he was putting up hay in a field north of Pewamo.  

Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m. at Shaw-Rivett-Hull funeral home in 
Muir with burial in Muir cemetery.  Rev. Manson Lowe will officiate.

He was born the son of Edward and Ethel Cholvin Melvin, Sr., on January 9, 
1913, in Chatsworth, Ill.  He came to a farm north of Pewamo when he was five.  
June 8, 1942 he married Dorothy Weber of Fowler.  He is a former employee of 
Nash-Kelvinator and Fisher Body in Lansing.  Melvin had been working his 
mother’s farm north of Pewamo the past ten years.

Survivors are his wife, Dorothy, four sons, Charles, stationed with U.S. Navy 
in Boston, Mass.; Terrance, serving with Army in Ft. Bennington, Ga.; Jeffery 
and Timothy at home; two daughters; Catherine at home and Mrs. Ray Badder of 
Lyons, three grandchildren, a stepmother, Mrs. Edith Melvin of Muir; sister, 
Mrs. Lloyd Bissell of St. Johns, half sister, Mrs. William Durbin of Carson 
City; stepsister, Mrs. Robert Fox of Fowler, and two half brothers, Joseph and 
Charles Melvin of Muir.


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