My Great Uncle Arnold was a rather unique man. We called him, "UNC" for short.
Granted I didn't know him very well and only in his retirment years, the memories shared from my father and grandmother makes him all the more interesting.
Grandma Lewis said he was a handful as a boy. His mother, Ada Dixon Melugin Fleenor, was an excellent cook. She worked the silver mines in Colorado and "Unc" was a mischeivious boy. They forgave his antics all because of her cooking.
By the time I knew Uncle Arnold, he had suffered several strokes and the only words he spoke that anyone could understand were cuss words.
It wasn't until he and his wife, Great Aunt Laura had passed did I learn that they were childhood sweethearts but that makes their life so much more fulfilling. She cared for him at the end.
He was in the US Navy for a very long time and shared great stories of his many travels. Grandma Lewis, his stepsister was very proud of him.
During his Navy years he brought home very cool things from lands from far away. There is an antique Mah Jong set made out of ivory that was at Grandmother Lewis' house forever. A unique cigarette dispenser that you tapped a bird and it would bring out a cigarette with it's beak.
Daddy explained the reason that "Unc" always wore long sleeved shirts was because he had tatoos from his neck to his shirt cuffs.
God Bless you and keep you, "UNC"
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror, Yucaipa, California, dated Wednesday, 17 January 1973
Arnold H. Melugin
Arnold H. Melugin, 76, of 11896 Lombard Ln, Yucaipa, died Jan. 14, 1973, in Loma Linda. He was a native of Colorado and liven in Yucaipa for six years. He was in the U. S. Navy for 27 years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Laura E. Melugin of Yucaipa; two sisters, Mrs. Fern Goswick of Colorado and Mrs. Della Lewis of Fullerton.
Services will be held today (Wednesday) at 2 p.m. in the Emmerson-Bartlett Memorial Chapel in Yucaipa with the Rev. Wendell C. Wollam and the San Bernardino Fleet Reserve Branch #129, officiating. Interment will be in Desert Lawn Memorial Park.
Courtesy of Earl R. Giddings
Granted I didn't know him very well and only in his retirment years, the memories shared from my father and grandmother makes him all the more interesting.
Grandma Lewis said he was a handful as a boy. His mother, Ada Dixon Melugin Fleenor, was an excellent cook. She worked the silver mines in Colorado and "Unc" was a mischeivious boy. They forgave his antics all because of her cooking.
By the time I knew Uncle Arnold, he had suffered several strokes and the only words he spoke that anyone could understand were cuss words.
It wasn't until he and his wife, Great Aunt Laura had passed did I learn that they were childhood sweethearts but that makes their life so much more fulfilling. She cared for him at the end.
He was in the US Navy for a very long time and shared great stories of his many travels. Grandma Lewis, his stepsister was very proud of him.
During his Navy years he brought home very cool things from lands from far away. There is an antique Mah Jong set made out of ivory that was at Grandmother Lewis' house forever. A unique cigarette dispenser that you tapped a bird and it would bring out a cigarette with it's beak.
Daddy explained the reason that "Unc" always wore long sleeved shirts was because he had tatoos from his neck to his shirt cuffs.
God Bless you and keep you, "UNC"
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror, Yucaipa, California, dated Wednesday, 17 January 1973
Arnold H. Melugin
Arnold H. Melugin, 76, of 11896 Lombard Ln, Yucaipa, died Jan. 14, 1973, in Loma Linda. He was a native of Colorado and liven in Yucaipa for six years. He was in the U. S. Navy for 27 years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Laura E. Melugin of Yucaipa; two sisters, Mrs. Fern Goswick of Colorado and Mrs. Della Lewis of Fullerton.
Services will be held today (Wednesday) at 2 p.m. in the Emmerson-Bartlett Memorial Chapel in Yucaipa with the Rev. Wendell C. Wollam and the San Bernardino Fleet Reserve Branch #129, officiating. Interment will be in Desert Lawn Memorial Park.
Courtesy of Earl R. Giddings
My Great Uncle Arnold was a rather unique man. We called him, "UNC" for short.
Granted I didn't know him very well and only in his retirment years, the memories shared from my father and grandmother makes him all the more interesting.
Grandma Lewis said he was a handful as a boy. His mother, Ada Dixon Melugin Fleenor, was an excellent cook. She worked the silver mines in Colorado and "Unc" was a mischeivious boy. They forgave his antics all because of her cooking.
By the time I knew Uncle Arnold, he had suffered several strokes and the only words he spoke that anyone could understand were cuss words.
It wasn't until he and his wife, Great Aunt Laura had passed did I learn that they were childhood sweethearts but that makes their life so much more fulfilling. She cared for him at the end.
He was in the US Navy for a very long time and shared great stories of his many travels. Grandma Lewis, his stepsister was very proud of him.
During his Navy years he brought home very cool things from lands from far away. There is an antique Mah Jong set made out of ivory that was at Grandmother Lewis' house forever. A unique cigarette dispenser that you tapped a bird and it would bring out a cigarette with it's beak.
Daddy explained the reason that "Unc" always wore long sleeved shirts was because he had tatoos from his neck to his shirt cuffs.
God Bless you and keep you, "UNC"
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror, Yucaipa, California, dated Wednesday, 17 January 1973
Arnold H. Melugin
Arnold H. Melugin, 76, of 11896 Lombard Ln, Yucaipa, died Jan. 14, 1973, in Loma Linda. He was a native of Colorado and liven in Yucaipa for six years. He was in the U. S. Navy for 27 years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Laura E. Melugin of Yucaipa; two sisters, Mrs. Fern Goswick of Colorado and Mrs. Della Lewis of Fullerton.
Services will be held today (Wednesday) at 2 p.m. in the Emmerson-Bartlett Memorial Chapel in Yucaipa with the Rev. Wendell C. Wollam and the San Bernardino Fleet Reserve Branch #129, officiating. Interment will be in Desert Lawn Memorial Park.
Courtesy of Earl R. Giddings
Granted I didn't know him very well and only in his retirment years, the memories shared from my father and grandmother makes him all the more interesting.
Grandma Lewis said he was a handful as a boy. His mother, Ada Dixon Melugin Fleenor, was an excellent cook. She worked the silver mines in Colorado and "Unc" was a mischeivious boy. They forgave his antics all because of her cooking.
By the time I knew Uncle Arnold, he had suffered several strokes and the only words he spoke that anyone could understand were cuss words.
It wasn't until he and his wife, Great Aunt Laura had passed did I learn that they were childhood sweethearts but that makes their life so much more fulfilling. She cared for him at the end.
He was in the US Navy for a very long time and shared great stories of his many travels. Grandma Lewis, his stepsister was very proud of him.
During his Navy years he brought home very cool things from lands from far away. There is an antique Mah Jong set made out of ivory that was at Grandmother Lewis' house forever. A unique cigarette dispenser that you tapped a bird and it would bring out a cigarette with it's beak.
Daddy explained the reason that "Unc" always wore long sleeved shirts was because he had tatoos from his neck to his shirt cuffs.
God Bless you and keep you, "UNC"
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror, Yucaipa, California, dated Wednesday, 17 January 1973
Arnold H. Melugin
Arnold H. Melugin, 76, of 11896 Lombard Ln, Yucaipa, died Jan. 14, 1973, in Loma Linda. He was a native of Colorado and liven in Yucaipa for six years. He was in the U. S. Navy for 27 years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Laura E. Melugin of Yucaipa; two sisters, Mrs. Fern Goswick of Colorado and Mrs. Della Lewis of Fullerton.
Services will be held today (Wednesday) at 2 p.m. in the Emmerson-Bartlett Memorial Chapel in Yucaipa with the Rev. Wendell C. Wollam and the San Bernardino Fleet Reserve Branch #129, officiating. Interment will be in Desert Lawn Memorial Park.
Courtesy of Earl R. Giddings
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