FREDRICKS, Melvin "Mully"

FREDRICKS, DUTCHER, WINTER, WALKER, KELLEY, FITZGERALD, ROCKWELL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/6/2016 at 13:43:03

Obituary ~ Melvin "Mully" Fredricks
Nov. 30, 1922 ~ February 08, 1996

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
February 13, 1996

Melvin "Mully" Fredricks, 73, of 17736 280th St., Mason City, died Thursday (Feb. 8, 1996) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.

Memorial services will be held Saturday (Feb. 24, 1996) at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Merlin Ackerson officiating.

There will be no visitation; the body was cremated.

Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., is in charge of arrangements.

Mully was born Nov. 30, 1922, in Flanagan, Ill., the son of George and Ada (Dutcher) Fredricks. He attended elementary and high school in Nora Springs, graduating from Nora Springs High School in 1941, then attended Upper Iowa University and Mason City Junior College. Mully served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1943 to 1946 on the L.S.T. #970.

He played professional baseball for the New York Yankees farm team and semi-pro baseball for the Mason City Legionnaire team.

Mully married Mary "Molly" Winter on July 2, 1948, at the First United Methodist Church.

Mully was a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service for 20 years. After his retirement in 1975, Mully continued with many hobbies and interests. When not following the Hawkeyes, he raised Arabian horses, maintained his bluebird trail, ham radio and wood working. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, VFW, Elks Lodge, American Legion and Benevolence Lodge #145 A.F. and A.M.

One of his greatest pleasures was volunteering at the Mercy Cancer Center until illness forced him to become a patient. He also was a member of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees.

Memorials may be given to the Mercy Cancer Center or Hospice of North Iowa.

Survivors include his wife, Mary "Molly" Fredricks of Mason City; his mother, Ada Fredricks of Nora Springs; four sisters, Wanda Walker and her husband, Darrell; Frances Kelley, and Doris Fitzgerald, all of Nora Springs, and Marjorie Rockwell and her husband, Jim, of Ramona, Calif.; many nieces and nephews; and a sister-in-law, Mildred Fredricks of Stacyville.

He was preceded in death by his father and brother Roger.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2016