Melvin "Mel" Clifford Patrick

Melvin Clifford Patrick, 73, of La Grande, died March 27. Viewing will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday and from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Monday at the La Grande Stake Center 1802 Gekeler Lane. The funeral will begin at 10 a.m. Monday with Bishop George Chadwick officiating. Burial will be at the Summerville Cemetery.

Mr. Patrick was born April 25, 1932 to James Clifford and Thelma Giles Patrick in Wendell, Idaho. He graduated from Imbler High School in 1950 and attended Brigham Young University.

On April 2, 1953 he married Renee Bailey in the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City.

After a divorce he married Judith Ann Gustafson-Hempel in the LDS Temple in Seattle, Wash.

He grew up outside of Summerville and lived in Pilot Rock and Hermiston. He and his second wife ran Mel's Heating Service for more thank 35 years. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and loved to serve his fellow man.

Survivors include his wife of La Grande; two sisters and their husbands, Carol and Bob Pace of Roseburg and Charlotte and Bob Herrmann of Bend; children and their spouses, Colleen and Bart Fullmer of Everett, Wash., David and Rena Patrick of Rowlett, Texas, Marianne and Mike Davidson of Federal Way, Wash., Kevin and Andrea Patrick of Goodyear, Ariz., Monica and Bret Bird of Meridian, Idaho, Mark Hempel of Otis, Eric and Amy Hempel of Klamath Falls, Brian and Sejena Hempel of Oregon City, Krista and Joe Secl of La Grande, and Kari and Dustin Countryman of La Grande; 27 grandchildren and other relatives.

Memorials may be made to the LDS Family History Center in care of Loveland Funeral Chapel, 1508 4th St.