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Sisters Jean, Janice, and Karen at Tip’s 80th birthday, 1995
Jean Elizabeth Melby-Mauer, the youngest of Tip and Ruth Melby’s five children, was born September 10, 1948, in Missoula, Montana. She attended Whitman College and the University of Washington, did graduate work at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and taught English as a Second Language there and at Valley High School until she retired in 2013. She and her husband, Georg, raised two sons, Andreas and Matthias. Jean died in Las Vegas on December 22, 2019.
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