{"id":2715,"date":"2007-10-03T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:27:54","slug":"eugene-james-gene-melton-jr-1919-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/10\/03\/eugene-james-gene-melton-jr-1919-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene James &#8220;Gene&#8221; Melton, Jr.  1919-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/RwP44spVI1I\/AAAAAAAAAHk\/UvvWX3jClac\/s1600-h\/Gene.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/Gene.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117207254563890002\" \/><\/a><br \/>Eugene James &#8220;Gene&#8221; Melton, Jr. of Lake Tanglewood died Wednesday, October 3, 2007.<br \/>Gene was born in Cement, Oklahoma on December 29, 1919 and technically gifted, took an early interest in radio, serving in the Navy during WWII, becoming a HAM radio operator and working for Santa Fe Railroad for 31 years, developing much of their cross-country microwave communications system.<br \/>Never searching for praise from others, Gene was always helping at the Churches of Christ at several locations, serving as a deacon, teaching local Bible classes, and working to establish Christianity in India through World Bible School.  By the example of his simple, honest life, he left an enduring legacy of believers among family, friends, and around the world.<br \/>He was preceeded in death by his parents and younger brother Jack Melton.<br \/>Gene is survived by his wife Mary Evelyn Wheeler Melton of 69 years, his brother Fred Melton of Flatonia, Texas, four children: Roger Melton and wife Linda of Rescue California, Mary Solomon and husband Walter of Lake Tanglewood, Henry Melton and wife Mary Ann of Hutto Texas, and Martha Barnett and husband Hugh of Dallas Texas.  He had 10 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene James &#8220;Gene&#8221; Melton, Jr. of Lake Tanglewood died Wednesday, October 3, 2007.Gene was born in Cement, Oklahoma on December 29, 1919 and technically gifted, took an early interest in radio, serving in the Navy during WWII, becoming a HAM radio operator and working for Santa Fe Railroad for 31 years, developing much of their&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/10\/03\/eugene-james-gene-melton-jr-1919-2007\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eugene James &#8220;Gene&#8221; Melton, Jr.  1919-2007<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/Gene.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-HN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}