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IN/MEMORWMSamuel'Sam' MelenaServices will be at 7 30 pm today at the Swan Funeral Home for Samuel ‘Sam Melena, 320 S. Conejos St , who died here Tuesday The Rev. Jose Ortiz and the Rev Dr Willard Norton will officiate. Burial will be at 10 a m Saturday at Evergreen Cemetery Born Feb. 21, 1895, in Santiago, Michoacan. Mexico, Mr Melena had been forced into the military service with the Mexican army when he was 14, and in 1910 came to Colorado. A self-taught man. he furthered his education by taking correspondence courses.taught Spanish lessons at the old YMCA, and also instructed in music At the time of his death he operated a neighborhood grocery store on Conejos StreetPreviously, he had been a miner in Georgetown, worked for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and at a steel mill in Pueblo, was a rancher in W’alsenburg and in Trinidad, was a coal miner with Pikeview Mine and workedSamuel Melenaat the Golden Cycle mill He was married Jan 8, 1925. in Colorado Springs Mr. Melena was a member of Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, the Conejos Neighborhood Improvement Organization during the 1950s, Alanzia Espano-Americana and was a post board member of Chadbom Spanish Mission He is survived by his wife, Rosa Melena; a daughter, Teresa Luque of Colorado Springs; two sons, Ismael Melena of Denver and Rudolph Melena of Colorado Springs; eight grandchildren; two great-granddaughters and several cousins and niecesNIT4L SWTISriCSJohiMiService: “Jerry B 10 a m. Swan Fun L. Wayne ficiate Bi ergreen C Mr Mar cock Ave in a local He w as 1BIRTHSMemorial Hospital WAMQS Mr and Mr$ Lucto RarrotGARCIA — Mr and Mrs Jose Garc a Colorado Spring, a boy 7 pound*, U Oii net* Nov Uin Geary,here since for the AleCrissey Fo Fort Carsc tired from Force Aca He also o Candlelighlhere and htganizationDenver.He was 1934, in C His wife, I ceded himHe wasReorgani Jesus Chr Saints.He is si sisters, E Odessa. 1 abeth Kel Cheesman, Springs, ar and nephei Contribi made to thlt; the Reorga Jesus Chri: Saints.Mr
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