Nellie Melby

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Nellie Melby Obiturary Mrs. Nellie Melby, Well Known Cafe Owner, Passes Had Successfully Conducted Hotel Business at Thunder Hawk and Restaurants here

Residents of Lemmon and cicinity were saddened Friday when death claimed Mrs. Nellie Melby, proprietor of Melby's Cafe, and for many years a resident and business woman in this city, at her home at 5:45 o'clock p.m. that day. Death was due to a heart attack suffered earlier in the day. She had been ill and confined to her home the past three weeks, her condition becoming critical Friday morning and death ensued in the afternoon. Nellie Oakland was born at Bergen, Norway, on January 30, 1890, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Nels Oakland. She spent her early childhood and recieved her education in that country. In her twenties, Mrs. Melby and one brother, Hans Nelson, emmigrated to the United States, the former locationg at Madison, S.D., where she had employment in a hotel, and the latter remaining at Clarksville, Minn., where he resided up until five or six years ago when he moved to Minneapolis, same state. Deceased came to Lemmon from Madison in 1913 and during that year was united in marriage in this city to Sam Melby, to chich union was born two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Melby and family, after living here a few years, filed on a homestead southeast of Thunder Hawk where they made their home until the former's health failed. In July, 1927, the Melby family moved to the village of Thunder Hawk where Mrs. Melby conducted a hotel and restaurant for a year or more. Mr. Melby preceded his wife in death at Thunder Hawk during that year, his passing due to canceer. Discontinuing the business in that village, Mrs. Melby and two sons moved to Lemmon about seven years ago since which time deceased had operated cafe's and restaurants. Left to mourn her passing are two sons, Harold 20, and Kenneth, 18; one brother, Hans Nelson of Minneapolis, Minn., and two sisters and one brother in Norway. A large concourse of sorrowing friends gathered at the American Lutheran church in this city Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock to pay their last tribute to the departed. The Rev. Holm of Strool officiated at the final rites. Her body was laid to rest. in Greenhill cemetery. Pall bearers wer: O.T. Finand. H.A. Kelm, Olaf Olson, John Kvale, Norman Fogel and Otto Rodenbour. Those from a distance who attended the funeral services were: Rudolph Nelson, a nephew of the deceseasd; and Hans Oakland of Clarksville, Minn., a cousin.