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Lynn Melvin Bisbee

Lynn Melvin Bisbee

Male 1919 - 1978  (58 years)


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  • Name Lynn Melvin Bisbee  [1, 2]
    Birth 6 Dec 1919  Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    • At home at 27 Wattsburg Street.
    Gender Male
    Census 7 Jan 1920  Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Census 23 Apr 1930  Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Census 13 Apr 1940  Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Census 12 Apr 1950  Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
    Death 27 May 1978  Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 7] 
    • Hamot Hospital.
    Burial 31 May 1978  Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 12] 
    Lynn M. Bisbee    		 Lynn M. Bisbee
    Photograph by William F. Bisbee
    Person ID I7  Bisbee
    Last Modified 6 Feb 2023

    Father Adelbert Melvin Bisbee,   b. 28 May 1869, Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Apr 1951, Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Mother Ethel Mae Hatch,   b. 15 Sep 1884, Hatch Hollow, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1968, Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
    Marriage 4 Jul 1906  Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14] 
    Family ID F6937  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Margaret Jane Dunnihoo,   b. 9 Apr 1922, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Sep 2001, Marion, Smyth, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Marriage 6 Aug 1941  Panama, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 15] 
    Divorce 7 Jul 1948  [7] 
    Remarriage 19 Nov 1949  Panama, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Divorced for second time 1960. [7]
    Children 
    +1. W.F. Bisbee, Sr.
    +2. Cmsgt. Thomas Lynn Bisbee,   b. 12 Nov 1944, Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 2000, Hampton, Hampton (city), Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
    +3. Karen Elaine Bisbee,   b. 8 Aug 1952, Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jul 2007, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
     4. K.J. Bisbee
    Family ID F9  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2009

    Family 2 J.M. Flowers
    Family ID F10  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 6 Dec 1919 - Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 7 Jan 1920 - Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 23 Apr 1930 - Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 13 Apr 1940 - Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 6 Aug 1941 - Panama, Chautauqua, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsRemarriage - 19 Nov 1949 - Panama, Chautauqua, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 12 Apr 1950 - Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 27 May 1978 - Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 31 May 1978 - Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • Lynn Melvin Bisbee stood 5'-10" tall, was of medium build, and had light brown hair and hazel-green eyes. He attended elementary and high school in Union City, graduating in 1937. He was a bright and popular student, holding several student government positions. Even before graduation, he was earning money playing saxophone in local dance bands. He was part of a family band, the "Rhythm Makers," featuring Lynn on sax, sister Helen on piano, brother Clair on drums, and sister-in-law Florence on violin. His dream of becoming an aviator was dashed when damaged ear drums, the result of a childhood infection, kept him out of World War II. During the war he worked for his father-in-law, J. R. Dunnihoo (Rohlm Manufacturing), producing fuel system components for US fighter aircraft. In the late 1940's he joined the Diesel-Electric (Locomotive) Division of the General Electric Company in Erie, working as a machinist, sheet metal fabricator, and layout designer. Like his father and brother, Lynn was a talented framer, carpenter and joiner. He was also an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed occasional fishing trips to Canada, and annual deer hunting trips into the Allegheny Mountains. Lynn greatly enjoyed cooking for family get-togethers, and is especially remembered for his venison dishes, clam chowder and lobster, all served with plenty of ice cold beer. Lynn was only 58 years old when he succumbed to cancer. He is buried with his parents, grandparents and great grandparents in Wattsburg Cemetery on Jamestown Road, Wattsburg, Pennsylvania. [16]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 129.

    2. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 22.

    3. [S1205] Pennsylvania Department of Health, Birth Certificate, Pennsylvania, birth certificate 2131090 (1919), Lynn Melvin Bisbee.
      Lynn Melvin Bisbee, born 12-06-1919 in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
      Father: Delbert M. Bisbee, age 50, born Wattsburg, Pennsylvania
      Mother: Ethel M. Hatch, age 37, born Erie, Pennsylvania

    4. [S1209] Pennsylvania State Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, Death Certificate, Pennsylvania, death certificate 045770 (1978), Lynn Melvin Bisbee.
      Informant: Jeanette Bisbee (wife), 2517 E. 40th Street, Erie, Pennsylvania. Lynn Melvin Bisbee, SSN 163-16-1977, 2517 E. 40th Street, age 58, sheet metal worker at General Electric Company, husband of Jeaneatte Kwiatkowski, died 27 May 1978 at Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, of generalized carcinomatosis due to adenocardinoma of the stomach. His father was Dell Bisbee, mother's maiden name not ascertainable. He was buried 31 May 1979 at Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, by Edward J. Garr Funeral Home, 459 East 12 St, Erie, Pa. 16503.

    5. [S1534] Social Security Death Index - Ancestry, (www.ancestry.com, 2007: Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index, Master File), entry for Lynn Bisbee, 1978, SS no. 163-16-1977.
      Name: Lynn Bisbee
      SSN: 163-16-1977
      Last Residence: 16510 Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States of America
      Born: 6 Dec 1919
      Last Benefit: 16510 Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States of America
      Died: May 1978
      State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951)

    6. [S1206] New York State. Chautauqua., Marriage Registration, Chautauqua, New York, Local Register No. 10, Bisbee-Dunnihoo, 1949.
      Lynn Melvin Bisbee of Union City, Pennsylvania, age 21, born Union City, and Margaret Jane Dunnihoo of Union City, Pennsylvania, age 19, born Dayton, Ohio, married 11-19-1949 in the Town of Panama, New York.

    7. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 260.

    8. [S1307] Bisbee, Adelbert M. (I18229): 1920 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T625, roll 1567; enumeration district (ED) 140, sheet 9A, page 180A, line 45, dwelling 217, family 237; image accessed 12/21/208.), 1920.PA.Erie.Union City Ward 1.140.17.

    9. [S1313] Bisbee, Adelbert M. (I18229): 1930 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2002): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T626, roll 2038; enumeration district (ED) 139, sheet 17B, page 158B, line 81, dwelling 461, family 467; image accessed 12/21/208.), 1930.PA.Erie.Union.139.34.

    10. [S3242] Bisbee, Adelbert Melvin (I18229): 1940 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2012): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T627, roll 3501, enumeration district (ED) 51, sheet 13A, page 731A, line 12, household 350; image accessed 3 Aug 2012.), 1940.PA.Erie.Union City.51.25.

    11. [S3524] Bisbee, Lynn Melvin (I7): 1950 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2022): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T628, enumeration district (ED) 25-82, sheet 5, line 7, household 45; Image accessed 10 Jan 2023), US.1950.PA.Erie.Union City.16.6.

    12. [S1220] Gravestone, Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Pa., Lynn M. Bisbee; 1978.
      "BISBEE / Lynn M. / Dec 6, 1919 / May 27, 1978" -photographed 2007 by William F. Bisbee. Gravestone contains name of second wife, Jeannette M. Bisbee and date of marriage: Jun 17, 1960.

    13. [S1213] Bisbee, Adelbert & Ethel: Marriage Record, (City Clerk, Jamestown, New York, 23 Feb 2005).

    14. [S1273] Bisbee, Adelbert-Ethel Hatch Marriage Certificate, (1906, Jamestown, New York).
      Married 4 July 1906 in Jamestown, Chautaqua, New York, by A. A. Horton, Minister of the Gospel.

    15. [S1207] Pennsylvania. Erie., Divorce Decree, Erie County, Pennsylvania, 232 May 1948, Divorce Decree, July 7, 1948.

    16. [S1200] Bisbee, William F: Records and Recollections.
      Son of subject.