Mabel Melia^[1]

1901 - 1986  (84 years)

• Name	Mabel Melia
  Birth	21 Oct 1901
  Gender	Female
  Death	Apr 1986
  Person ID	I25255	Bisbee
  Last Modified	31 May 2010

  
  

  Father	Isaac Newton Melia,   b. 25 Jan 1868, Preston, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada d. 1 May 1949, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Birdie Grace Bisbee,   b. 20 Apr 1874, Smyrna Town, Chenango, New York, USA d. 9 Jul 1934, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	14 Aug 1897
  Family ID	F9529	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Taken from "The Melia Family" by Kay Melia 2001 Mabel Alice, born Oct 21, 1901, third child of Newt and Grace Melia, and born in the old farm house on the farm. Mabel was an extremely pretty girl, and completed grade school at Fonda, graduated with class of 1921 in Bucklin, and attended Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, where she received her teaching degree, and was a member of the famed Bethany College Choir which continues to this day to perform the Messiah at Christmas and Easter for thongs of people. Mabel taught at several rural schools including Daisy Dell and North Star. She worked at the Bucklin Post Office for about 5 years. She was married for a very short period, and the marriage was subsequently anulled. In 1946, she formed a partneship with her Father, Newt, and her brother Elmer and bought the only dress shop in Bucklin and was in business there for 4 years, before selling the shop in 1950 and moving to Denver, Colorado, where she spent 25 years working in the foundation departments of the May Company and Joslins. She later managed those departments in The May Company. In 1975, she returned to Bucklin and lived out her years there.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2589] Crandall Melia, Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, Melia, Crandall: Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, (1837 N. San Antonia Ave, Upland, California. Tel. 909-985-4350. Email candcmelia2@yahoo.com).