This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Drake, Fryer, Bundren, Starnes, Hall, Jones Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GW.2ADE/1747 Message Board Post: From The Fresno Bee Fresno, California (Fresno County) Tuesday, February 18, 1975 DRAKE, in Fresno, February 15, 1975, REV. MELVIN E. DRAKE, SR., father of Pearlie M. Fryer of Fresno, Evelyn Bundren of Tahoe City, Rev. H. M. (Jack) Drake of New Mexico, Rev. Melvin E. Drake, Jr. & Rev. Dan A. Drake, both of Florida. Stepfather of Joe Starnes of Colorado, Lillian Starnes, Francis Hall, Helen Starnes, all of Georgia. Brother of Ira V. Drake & Goldie Lee Jones, both of Texas. Twenty-four Grandchildren, Sixteen Great-Grandchildren and Five Great Grandchildren. Services Thursday 10:30 a.m., Church of God, 725 N. Millbrook, Fresno. Interment Washington Colony Cemetery. STEPHAN & BEAN FUNERAL SERVICE. (Ed. note: Rev. Drake was born 3/5/1891, per the Social Security Death Index)