Melber, Edward Franklin

1931 - 2015  (83 years)

• Name	Melber, Edward Franklin
  Birth	06 Aug 1931	Upper Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA
  Gender	Male
  Census	5 Apr 1940	East Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA   [1]
  Death	20 Mar 2015	Jim Thorpe, Carbon Co., PA
  Person ID	I13517	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	18 Feb 2017

  
  

  Father	Melber, Nathan Lloyd,   b. 14 Dec 1907, Upper Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA d. 15 Nov 1993, Jim Thorpe, Carbon Co., PA (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Prye, Dollie Ethel,   b. 11 Dec 1911, Upper Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA d. 17 Jan 2005, Nesquehoning, Carbon Co., PA (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	04 Nov 1929  [2]
  Family ID	F96	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Clay, C.B.
  Children	1. Melber, S.D.   2. Melber, E.F. Jr   3. Melber, T.N.   4. Melber, R.J.   5. Melber, Joseph Clay,   b. 17 Apr 1962   d. 18 Apr 1962 (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F6484	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2020

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 06 Aug 1931 - Upper Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA Census - 5 Apr 1940 - East Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA Death - 20 Mar 2015 - Jim Thorpe, Carbon Co., PA  = Link to Google Earth
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  Edward F. Melber Sr. Edward F. Melber Sr., 83, of Bear Creek Lakes, Jim Thorpe, passed away on Friday, March 20, in his home with his family at his side. He was the husband of Constance B. (Clay) Melber. They celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary on Oct. 6, 2014. Born in Mauch Chunk, he was a son of the late Nathan L. Melber Sr. and Dollie E. (Pry) Melber. He was a 1949 graduate of the former East Mauch Chunk High School. Melber was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War and served as a medical corpsman on the U.S.S. Repose in Korea and Japan. He was a licensed funeral director since 1955 and retired from the Edward F. Melber Funeral Home, where he had worked for his father until owning and operating the business, retiring in 2009. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in the Heights, Jim Thorpe, where he had served many terms on the council. The deceased had been president of the former YMCA directors of Jim Thorpe. He was a chief deputy coroner of Carbon County for over 25 years. He was a member of the American Legion Post 304, Jim Thorpe, the Club Chateau fishing club along the Lackawaxen River and the NRA. Ed loved to fish, hunt deer, turkeys and especially grouse, for which he was well known. Besides his wife Connie, he is survived by four children, sons, Edward F. Melber Jr., RPH, and his wife, Anne, of Jim Thorpe, Thomas N. Melber, and his wife, Mary, of Weissport, and Robert J. Melber of Apache Junction, AZ, and a daughter, Susan D., wife of Ricky Meckes of Jim Thorpe; four sisters, Margaret Hartman and Adelle, wife of Bernard Kuhla, both of Jim Thorpe, Natalie Mayor of Puyallup, WA, and Raelene Bevich of Lehighton; three brothers, Nathan L. Melber Jr., and his wife, Joan, James H. Melber, and his wife, Nancy, and Harry K. Melber, and his wife, Shelley, all of Jim Thorpe; four grandchildren, Marie Heydt, Nathan Melber, Joshua Melber and Kara Melber; five great-grandchildren, Levi, Gabriel, Ava, Dominic and Colleen; and many nieces and nephews. He was also predeceased by a son, Joseph Clay Melber; and a brother, Glenn Melber. Published in (Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania) Times News on Mar. 21, 2015

  
  

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  [S697] 1940 U.S. census. Carbon County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, East Mauch Chunk, enumeration district 13-7, p. 5A (penned), household 93, Dollie and Nahtan Melber, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 March 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication T627_3460. [S674] Obituary. "Nate Melber, retired undertaker, banker, dies in Jim Thorpe home," 16 November 1993, The (Lehighton, Pennsylvania) Times News