Re: Mello from Dos Palos, California
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Mello from Dos Palos, California
7/26/98
Hello:
That was my Aunt Madelyn who married Don Potter. My father was Arthur who was Madelyn's brother. Where is my cousin Chris Kollbeck? I was born in Los Banos, CA but now live in Irvine, CA. Madelyn and Arthur had a brother, Joe who lives in Missouri. My mother speaks to him once in a while and they have a son Bobby who lives in San Jose somewhere? So out of the Mello's Madelyn and Arthur (my father) have passed on. Of the cousins Candice Kollbeck has passed on. BobbyMello, Myself Rick and my brothers Alan and Alvin Mello (the twins) and Chris Kollbeck are still around. I have not talked to Chris since maybe 15 years ago or so when I ran into him in Los Banos at Ryans Resturant on Hwy 152. Bobby I have not seen or heard from in oh 30+ years. I remember the ranch in Dos Palos, I just stopped by there in November. Looked like someone was working on the place. As I walked around I remembered the stories my dad had told me. Like the cellar he dug using one of his hourse's. The first house he built was still down the road. The barn was there and I remember the egg route dad had and I would help him candel eggs and that barn door.(note. candleing eggs means holding them to a light to make sure the eggs are notgrowing an imbryo). I'm glad it was just me on this road trip for stay a the ranch was short, yet the tears very long.
Rick Mello