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Local notices from Melvin reflect a busy travel and visit pattern
Melvin Texas notes enumerate military, school, and family visits, with Lance Corp Joe Fortson from Camp Pendleton visiting his parents, several relatives traveling to Lake Brownwood for training, and numerous Rendon, Marshall, Morrow, and Johnson families hosting or visiting kin across towns such as Rotan, Perrin, Freeport, Waco, San Angelo, and Denton.
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Melvin
Texas
Lance Corp
Joe Fortson
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Otha Fortson
Sandra Marshall
Lake Brownwood
Cloma Cranfill
Rankin
Ten Kilgore
Georgia
J. KR. Johnson
Lilly Hemphell
Jennie
Merlene Martin
Lohn
Walter Wilkers
Frank Sessome
Flen
Floyd Marshall
Jimmie
Joe Paul Morrow
Paluxy
Velma Morrow
Avert Carleon
Epent
San Argelo
Ken Mathis
Fred Rossman
Garland Slaughter
Linda
San Angelo
R. S. Armistead
Georgia Parks
Rotan
Jerry Marshall
Jerilyn
Leslie Mitchel
C. L. Smith
Abilene
J. R. Johnson
Hallie Coulson
Ira McNeely
Lois Mae Smith
Robert Lee
Smith
Johnson
Waco
Ethel Walker
Emmett Weaver
Eden
Waverly Drinkard
Mark
Susan
Houston
Mackey Weaver
David Matteson
Stanton
Harold Matteeon
Fred Ernest
St. Lawrence
Garden City
Robert Young
Ernest
Brady Lake
Leslie Marshall and
Sone
Pearsall
Arch Jacobson
Lake Buchanan
A. K. Jacobson
Dallas
Velma Vachror
Throit
Mich
G. C. Hubbard
C. FE. Renfiie
Boerne
M. PP
Hereford
Herman Bettis
T. B. Cobb
Lewis Hamie
Odessa
Jackie Garner
Lbji Lake
Lucille Middleton
Leroy Fry
Rochelle
Kenneth Normand
Big Spring
James Normand
G. W. Moore
Pear Valley
Mrav Billys Fowlar
Debra Haywood
Santa Anna Hospital
V. Y. Middleton, Sr
Sam