The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., August 10, 2000, page 16

MELVA LOCKE

     Graveside services for Melva Locke, 89, of Husum, will be held Saturday, Aug. 12, 2000, at 11 a.m. at the White Salmon Cemetery.
     Visitation will be Friday, Aug. 11, from noon to 5 p.m. at Gardner Funeral Home in White Salmon.
     A complete obituary will appear in next week's paper.

The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., August 17, 2000, page 20

MELVA LOCKE

     Melva Locke, of Husum, died Aug. 7, 2000, at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Ore., at the age of 89.
     Mr. Locke was born March 25, 1911, in Camas, to William M. and Delia (Evans) Locke. He was raised in the Bingen/White Salmon area and attended schools here. During World War II, he worked in the shipyards in Vancouver.
     He met Gayle Dodds in Vancouver as she worked as a nurse at Permanente Hospital. They married in Washougal on April 12, 1943. After the war they moved to Bingen and then to the farm in Husum, where he lived the rest of his life. Gayle Locke preceded him in death in 1993.
     He loved the woods, cutting firewood or picking huckleberries. He also loved to fish. Mr. Locke is survived by daughters Gloria Cook, The Dalles, Ore., and Linda Henson, East Wenatchcee; son Bill Locke, Husum; grandchildren Kathleen Pizzolato, Laclee, Idaho, John Todd Cook Jr., Sagle, Idaho, Thomas R. Cook, Spokane, Tommy Phelps, Hood River, Ore., Jerry Phelps, Odell, Ore; Scott Henson, Bellingham, Mark Henson, East Wenatchee, and JeNiene and Aaron Moore, Husum; and seven great-grandchildren.
     Graveside services for Mr. Locke were held Saturday, Aug.12, 2000, at 11 a.m. at the White Salmon Cemetery.
     Memorials may be made to the Husum Fire Department.
     Arrangements were handled by Gardner Funeral Home of White Salmon.

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