CHARLES I. MELVIN
Charles Irvin Melvin, 56, died Saturday in his Redding home following a long illness.
An employee of the Wonderland - Mountain Gate Community Services District, Melvin was born on July 5, 1911, in Eureka. He had lived in Shasta County for the past six years.
Melvin was a member of the American Legion, Arcata Post 274, and was a veteran of World Was II.
He served as assistant fire chief of the Mountain Gate Fire Department and had been logger near Arcata before moving to Shasta County.
He leaves his widow, Eunice S. Melvin; two sons, Robert of Tempe, Ariz., and Charles of Arcata; a brother, Harold Melvin of Klamath, Calif., and seven grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are being made at McDonald's Redding Chapel. The family has requested that any memorial donations be made to the American Cancer Society.
Published in the Record Searchlight, Redding, CA, on June 3, 1968
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Son of Matilda Annie Hancorne and Charles Grant Melvin.
A marriage announcement in the Ferndale Enterprise on September 2, 1910, reported his parents were married in Eureka on August 28, 1910, and would reside in the Bald Hills section where Charles owned a ranch. Sadly, Matilda died on April 10, 1913, at the age of 23 in Humboldt County.
In 1920, his father was listed as widowed and living in Trinidad, CA. Charles (age 8) and his brother, Harold (age 7), were living with their maternal uncle and his wife, Henry and Hazel Hancorne, in Klamath, CA.
By 1930, Charles and his brother were living with their father in Trinidad.
Charles Irvin Melvin, 56, died Saturday in his Redding home following a long illness.
An employee of the Wonderland - Mountain Gate Community Services District, Melvin was born on July 5, 1911, in Eureka. He had lived in Shasta County for the past six years.
Melvin was a member of the American Legion, Arcata Post 274, and was a veteran of World Was II.
He served as assistant fire chief of the Mountain Gate Fire Department and had been logger near Arcata before moving to Shasta County.
He leaves his widow, Eunice S. Melvin; two sons, Robert of Tempe, Ariz., and Charles of Arcata; a brother, Harold Melvin of Klamath, Calif., and seven grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are being made at McDonald's Redding Chapel. The family has requested that any memorial donations be made to the American Cancer Society.
Published in the Record Searchlight, Redding, CA, on June 3, 1968
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Son of Matilda Annie Hancorne and Charles Grant Melvin.
A marriage announcement in the Ferndale Enterprise on September 2, 1910, reported his parents were married in Eureka on August 28, 1910, and would reside in the Bald Hills section where Charles owned a ranch. Sadly, Matilda died on April 10, 1913, at the age of 23 in Humboldt County.
In 1920, his father was listed as widowed and living in Trinidad, CA. Charles (age 8) and his brother, Harold (age 7), were living with their maternal uncle and his wife, Henry and Hazel Hancorne, in Klamath, CA.
By 1930, Charles and his brother were living with their father in Trinidad.
CHARLES I. MELVIN
Charles Irvin Melvin, 56, died Saturday in his Redding home following a long illness.
An employee of the Wonderland - Mountain Gate Community Services District, Melvin was born on July 5, 1911, in Eureka. He had lived in Shasta County for the past six years.
Melvin was a member of the American Legion, Arcata Post 274, and was a veteran of World Was II.
He served as assistant fire chief of the Mountain Gate Fire Department and had been logger near Arcata before moving to Shasta County.
He leaves his widow, Eunice S. Melvin; two sons, Robert of Tempe, Ariz., and Charles of Arcata; a brother, Harold Melvin of Klamath, Calif., and seven grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are being made at McDonald's Redding Chapel. The family has requested that any memorial donations be made to the American Cancer Society.
Published in the Record Searchlight, Redding, CA, on June 3, 1968
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Son of Matilda Annie Hancorne and Charles Grant Melvin.
A marriage announcement in the Ferndale Enterprise on September 2, 1910, reported his parents were married in Eureka on August 28, 1910, and would reside in the Bald Hills section where Charles owned a ranch. Sadly, Matilda died on April 10, 1913, at the age of 23 in Humboldt County.
In 1920, his father was listed as widowed and living in Trinidad, CA. Charles (age 8) and his brother, Harold (age 7), were living with their maternal uncle and his wife, Henry and Hazel Hancorne, in Klamath, CA.
By 1930, Charles and his brother were living with their father in Trinidad.
Charles Irvin Melvin, 56, died Saturday in his Redding home following a long illness.
An employee of the Wonderland - Mountain Gate Community Services District, Melvin was born on July 5, 1911, in Eureka. He had lived in Shasta County for the past six years.
Melvin was a member of the American Legion, Arcata Post 274, and was a veteran of World Was II.
He served as assistant fire chief of the Mountain Gate Fire Department and had been logger near Arcata before moving to Shasta County.
He leaves his widow, Eunice S. Melvin; two sons, Robert of Tempe, Ariz., and Charles of Arcata; a brother, Harold Melvin of Klamath, Calif., and seven grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are being made at McDonald's Redding Chapel. The family has requested that any memorial donations be made to the American Cancer Society.
Published in the Record Searchlight, Redding, CA, on June 3, 1968
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Son of Matilda Annie Hancorne and Charles Grant Melvin.
A marriage announcement in the Ferndale Enterprise on September 2, 1910, reported his parents were married in Eureka on August 28, 1910, and would reside in the Bald Hills section where Charles owned a ranch. Sadly, Matilda died on April 10, 1913, at the age of 23 in Humboldt County.
In 1920, his father was listed as widowed and living in Trinidad, CA. Charles (age 8) and his brother, Harold (age 7), were living with their maternal uncle and his wife, Henry and Hazel Hancorne, in Klamath, CA.
By 1930, Charles and his brother were living with their father in Trinidad.
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