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Vesta Mabel Price Melby

Birth	:	29 May 1912 Harrison County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	25 Dec 2002 Onawa, Monona County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Hastings Cemetery and Crematorium, Camberley, Hastings District, New Zealand
Coordinate	:	-39.6310310, 176.8252840
Plot	:	Sect D D 46
Description	:	Vesta Mabel Melby, 90, Soldier, died Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at Burgess Health Center at Onawa. Vesta was born May 29, 1912 at North Grove near Dunlap, Iowa, the daughter of William and Dora (Pedersen) Price. She attended school at Fester School in rural Soldier. She married Arnold Melby June 28, 1933. The couple farmed in Mapleton and Soldier areas until retiring to Soldier in 1979. The past two years Vesta was at Elmwood Care Centre in Onawa. She was a member of Soldier Lutheran Church, Women of ELCA and was also a Sunday School teacher. Survivors include her husband, Arnold of Soldier; two... Read More	Vesta Mabel Melby, 90, Soldier, died Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at Burgess Health Center at Onawa. Vesta was born May 29, 1912 at North Grove near Dunlap, Iowa, the daughter of William and Dora (Pedersen) Price. She attended school at Fester School in rural Soldier. She married Arnold Melby June 28, 1933. The couple farmed in Mapleton and Soldier areas until retiring to Soldier in 1979. The past two years Vesta was at Elmwood Care Centre in Onawa. She was a member of Soldier Lutheran Church, Women of ELCA and was also a Sunday School teacher. Survivors include her husband, Arnold of Soldier; two sons and their wives, Virgil and Janet Ehlers of Soldier and Duane and Myrna Melby of Dunlap and a daughter and her husband Sharon and Bill Markey of Los Angeles, Calif.; 13 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandsons; a sister and her husband Erna and Fidell Wadsworth of Moville, and a brother-in-law, Ed Sammons of North Sioux City, S.D., and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by five brothers, Claude, Roy, Earl, Everett, and Howard who died in infancy; three sisters, Grace Wheeler, Edna Sammons and Betty Ulven and a grandson. Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Monday, December 30, 2002, at Soldier Lutheran Church with Pastor Jack Torgersen officiating. The congregation sang "Just As I Am" and "How Great Thou Art." Becky Marcum, soloist sang "One Day At A Time" and "Amazing Grace." Gilma Ahlers was organist. Burial was in Soldier Cemetery.

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Vesta Mabel Price Melby's memorial is located at: Hastings Cemetery and Crematorium, Camberley, Hastings District, New Zealand.
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Vesta Mabel Price Melby death on 25 Dec 2002 in Onawa, Monona County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: -39.6310310
Longitude: 176.8252840

Family Members:

Parent

William Roy Price

(1891 - 1968)

Dora Nickoline Pedersen Price

(1894 - 1969)

Spouse

Otto Clarence Ehlers

(1906 - 1965)

Arnold Melby

(1909 - 2009)

Siblings

(1914 - 1970)

(1916 - 1973)

(1917 - 1918)

(1919 - 1982)

(1926 - 1993)

Betty Jean Price Ulven

(1928 - 1979)

Erna Marie Price Wadsworth

(1930 - 2013)

Children

Virgil Herman Ehlers

(1930 - 2009)

Francis Duane “Champ” Melby

(1934 - 2011)

Flowers:

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