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Show Mother of County j Comissioner Dies Suddenly at Home Friends of the family were deeply shocked by the death, early , Sunday evening, of Mrs. Robert Y: Mellor, 68, mother of CourJty Com- missioner J. Ed Wilson, who suc-! suc-! climbed to a heart attack as she ' prepared to retire following a short automobile ride. Death took place at Ithe home of her son, with whom she had been living f or the past several months. Mr. Wilson, Wil-son, brakeman on the streamliner j was relieved of duty as the. train (passed through Milford tast- bound that evening, but death ot his mother had been almost instantaneous in-stantaneous some time before he arrived. Well . attended . funeral services for Mrs. Mellor took place Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon alt the Milford L. D. S. chapel, with Bishop M. J. Chris-Ittnsen Chris-Ittnsen taking charge. The speakers speak-ers were Miss Lucille Estes, dea-coness-pasl.lor lof ithe Community 'M. E. church, and Mr. Christensen while the opening and closing prayers were offered by Milf or j High School Principal E. R. Moody and County Attorney Theodore Bohn of Beaver. Musical numbers included a vocal solo by Dan Ferguson, Fer-guson, with Mrs. E.L. Smith at the piano; a vocal duet by Mrs. F. E. Casterline and Mrs. Lee Gray, with Mrs. J. F. Tribole at the piano; pi-ano; and a vocal solo by Mrs. ! Gray. Miss Estes took charge of burial services at the local cemetery, where interment took place. ' Fannie iScalles Wilson Mellor was born in Novemlber, 1869, in Rockdale, Texas, the eldest chila of a family of eight born to John and Malissy iScakp, who helplea pioneer that part of Texas. Slit was married to John Wilson in 1886, but .her husband died in 1888 j and 20 years later she was mar-' ried to Robert Y. Mellor, promi-I promi-I nent stockman of southwestt Tex-!as. Tex-!as. The latter died in ,1925 and she I had spent the summers for a num-'iber num-'iber cf years with her son here j in Milford, taking up her per-i ! ma nent residence here in July;' 1 1937. She had been a faithful ad-j herent of the Church of Christ' during her lifetime but., on com-' ling to Milford, had affiliated her-' ! self with the Community M. E. i church, having joined the Ladies Aid organization of that church a j week before her death. i Surviving Mrs. Mellor are her ! son, J. Ed Wilson, a grands, n. i Howard Wilson, and a brother, W. I H. Scales, of Janesvilie, Ohio. ' Though not well known in Mi".-j ford except through her son, be-' be-' cause tf her -short residence here and her retiring disposition, Mrs. Mellor as well 'thought of in the community, the love and devotion shown hi-.r by her son and grandson grand-son testifying in unmistakeahle terms to the worth cf this good woman. |