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Donald Lawrence Mellenbruch

1900–1991confirmed

Donald Lawrence Mellenbruch (20 April 1900 – 8 May 1991) was born in Carson, Kansas to Charles Frederick Mellenbruch and Myrta Johnson Mellenbruch. He married Juanita Rose Lewis Mellenbruch. His children were Donald L. Mellenbruch Sr. and Charles Norman Mellenbruch. He died in 1991, in Hiawatha, Kansas.

Early life

Donald Lawrence Mellenbruch was born on April 20, 1900, at Carson, Kansas.^[1][3] He was a son of C. Fred and Myrta Johnson Mellenbruch.^{[4][6][12][13]} A Find a Grave memorial gives the same birth date but does not establish his birth place.^[1][2]

Marriage and family

According to his obituary, he married Juanita Lewis on February 12, 1927, in Powhattan, Kansas.^[4] The Sabetha Herald reported that Donald L. Mellenbruch, of Fairview, and Juanita R. Lewis, of Powhattan, were married at the Methodist parsonage in Powhattan on February 12.^[11] The 1940 census listed the household of Lawrence Mellenbruck, age 39, with his wife Juanita and a daughter.^[7] Charles Norman Mellenbruch was born in 1931 to Donald Lawrence and Juanita (Lewis) Mellenbruch of rural Brown County, Kansas.^[10] His May 1991 obituary named surviving children including two daughters and two sons, among them Charles, and stated that a son, Donald, had died on March 1, 1990.^[8] A 1990 obituary for Donald L. Mellenbruch Sr. named his surviving parents as Lawrence and Nita Mellenbruch of Fairview.^[9]

Later life and death

Donald Lawrence Mellenbruch died on May 8, 1991, at Hiawatha, Kansas.^[5] He was buried at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Fairview, Brown County, Kansas.^[1]

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Donald Lawrence Mellenbruch

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