Mary Margaret (SHAY) MELTON

SHAY, TURNER, MELTON, ROOF, WOODRING

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 8/31/2011 at 02:03:11

Bedford Times Press
Bedford, Iowa
Thursday, March 30, 1933

MRS. MARY MELTON DIES
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Shay

Mrs. Mary [Margaret] MELTON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John [Valentine and Mary "Emma" (TURNER)] SHAY, and wife of Frank MELTON of Goodland, Kans., died at a hospital in Denver, Colo., Thursday evening and was buried Sunday at Goodland, Kans. She was 46 years of age.

She leaves her husband, one daughter, Iowa Faye and two sons, a sister, Mrs. M[ack]. E[dward]. ROOF of Denver, Colo., two brothers, Roy [Olaf] of St. Joseph, Mo., and [Luke] Ernest of Atchison, Kans.

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Blockton News
Mrs. Mary SHAY MELTON, of Goodland, Kansas, died at the Colorado General Hospital in Denver, Colorado, Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock following a surgical operation submitted to some ten days before. She was 46 years of age. Besides her husband she leaves three children — Mrs. [Iowa Faye] Ivan WOODRING and Paul and W[ilford]. S[hay]. MELTON; two brothers and a sister, R[oy]. O[laf]. SHAY, of St. Joseph; L[uke]. E[rnest]. SHAY of Atchison, and Mrs. M. E. [Faye (SHAY)] ROOF of Denver, Colorado.

Funeral services were held at Goodland Sunday.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2011