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Sidney (Tip) Melby
Tip Melby
Ruth Melby
Ruth Melby

Sidney (Tip) Melby, the son of Christopher “Doc” Cranston and Bess (Campbell) Melby, was born on April 8, 1915. In 1937 he married Ruth Kelly, and they had five children.

Click a name to see the stories, letters, and photographs about each of them.

For more about Tip himself, see Sidney (Tip) Melby and Tip’s Story.

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