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Longtime Western Electric worker Louis Melcher marks 40 years
Louis G. Melcher of Forest Park reaches his forty year milestone with Western Electric Hawthorne works. A cost accountant since 1918 he joined as a cable tester and has specialized in his current role for decades. Melcher serves as a Park Board commissioner and is active in bowling with two championships since 1945. He was born in Chicago and married Hilda Schlemann in 1925. they have three married children and six grandchildren.
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Louis G. Melcher
Beloit
Forest Park
Western Electric Company
Hawthorne Works
Western Electric
Hawthorne
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Telephone Pioneers of America
Melpher
Park Board
Melcher
Chicago
Hilda Schlemann