Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Name: Melvin James West 
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 5/15/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
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Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK
APRIL 30, 2002

MELVIN JAMES WEST
     Hulbert---Funeral services for Melvin James West, 76, of Hulbert, will be 
held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at the Reed-Culver Funeral Home with Rev. 
Charley Ford officiating.  Burial will follow at the IOOF Cemetery in Hulbert.  
Services are under the direction of the Reed-Culver Funeral Home.
     Pallbearers include Marvin Morgan Jr., Brad West, Avery Rogers, Matt 
Laster, Bub Jenkins and Danny Whitekiller.  Honorary pallbearers include C.V. 
Jenkins, Mike Jenkins and Bobby Joe Jenkins.
     Melvin James West was born Aug. 11, 1925, in Bonham, Texas, the son of Leo 
and Ida Belle (Fields) West and he departed this life on Sunday, April 28, 2002, 
in Wagoner.
     West grew up in Texas and moved to the Fort Gibson area to help build the 
Fort Gibson Dam.  He had lived on Norwood Mountain most of his adult life and 
was a heavy equipment operator in the construction business.  He was a member of 
the Fort Gibson Church of Christ.
     West was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Aaron West; twin 
children, Plez and Pleazatine West; and the mother of his children, Elda 
Baldridge.
     He is survived by two daughters and their husbands, Melva Ruth Ford and 
husband Ron, of Hulbert and Janelda Gower and husband Gary, of Tahlequah; two 
sons, James and Danny West both of Muskogee; nine grandchildren; five great-
grandchildren, along with many other relatives, loved ones and friends.