Services Held at Bowling Green for Melvin Minnich, 54

Melvin M. Minnich, 54, former Liberty Center resident, died in his home in Bowling Green, O., on Friday. He had been ill for two years.

Mr. Minnich was a graduate of Liberty Center School and was very active in sports circles.

At the time of his passing, Mr. Minnich was plant superintendent of the Bowling Green Sentinel. He got his start in the printing trade in the Liberty Press plant.

He started with this paper about 1922 and was one of the first linotype operators on the Press staff. He also wrote news and sports.

He moved to the Northwest-News in Napoleon and served as sports writer and linotype operator for 25 years for that paper. In 1950 he took over his duties at the Sentinel.

Surviving are his wife, Grace; sons, Max, Adrian, Mich,, and Neil and Michael, both from Bowling Green; daughter, Lyndamae, Bowing Green; sisters, Mrs. Annabelle Barnum, Stryker; Mrs. Roselyn Hartings, Coldwater, and Mrs. Norma Miller, Liberty Center, and brothers, Marion Minnich, Continental and Capt. Orville Minnich in the army at Tokyo, Japan.

Services were held Monday in the Deck Mortuary. Burial was in Liberty Center Cemetery.