Alba Connie Melkus

© Alva Review-Courier

04-04-2001

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Glenn

Deceased: Alba Connie "A.C." Melkus, 87, Alva

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Laura; four brothers: Ora Frederick Melkus, Ernest Alexander Melkus, John Emery Melkus, and Carl Francis Melkus; and two sisters: Fola Mildred Melton and Olga Lena Snow.

A.C. is survived by three sons: Keith Melkus, of Newton, Kan., Francis Melkus and his wife, Mary of Amarillo, Texas, and Lowell Melkus and his wife, Katy, of Freedom; seven grandchildren: Connie Wise and her husband, Gary, of Woodward, Vicki Johansen and her husband, Tom, of Hays, Kan., Debra James and her husband, Ron, of Bushland, Texas, Donita Hohensee and her husband, Mark, of Amarillo, Texas, Jeffery Melkus and his wife, Hilda, of Houston, Texas, Michael Melkus of Dallas, Texas, and Linn Melkus and his wife, Melissa, of Freedom; eight great grandchildren: Jacey and Jared Wise of Woodward, Elsie and Kiley Johansen of Hays, Kan., Brandon and Christopher Melkus of Freedom, Kortnee Maree Hohensee of Amarillo, Texas, and Paige Lynn James of Bushland, Texas; and two sisters-in-law: Wanda (Reed) Melkus of Medicine Lodge, Kan., and Wanda (Culver) Reed of Great Bend, Kan.

Also surviving are people who adopted him several years ago, Harold and Sharon Snow, his grandchildren: Tammy (Snow) Boen and Clayton, Mindy (Snow) Bartel and Chris; his great grandchildren: Tiffany and Katlyn Boen; a very special friend, Mary Snow; other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be 1 p.m. April 5 at the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Mel Brown, pastor of the Bible Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will be in the Preston Hill Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.

Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to the Freedom Ambulance, the Cimarron Cowboys Association, or the Freedom Fire Departme

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