NOVEL RECEPTION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 5

NOVEL RECEPTION

HELD AT HUSBAND’S CASKET WIDOW’S 100 GUESTS LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28. Mrs. Gurli Mellentliin, widowed three days ago, poised and charming in white satin evening dress and smiling, stood and welcomed a hundred friends of her late husband. Dr. Michael Mellenthin, 50, Los Angeles physician, as they gathered at a full dress party in the Mellenthin borne last night to “say farewell” to their friend. An orchestra played soothing melodies, “Going Home” and Ted Lewis’ “Good Night” song. A colored baritone sang. Graciously Mrs. Mellentliin, shitting her gay Spanish shawl, extended her hand to one evening-clad guest after another. One approached in tears, Mrs. Mellenthin reproached her: “He’s not dead,” she. said. “He lias only gone away.” " Dean Ernest Holmes, of the Institute of Religious Science, spoke to the assemblage. “There stands our friend,” lie said, pointing to the silver casket beside which Mrs. Mellenthin had her place, “triumphant over his own clay. The soul is a bird in a snare which death sets free.” As the dean concluded, the orchestra struck up “Aloha.” Mrs. Mellenthin rose and said: “I thank you, my friends. And I know my husband is thanking you with me.” Dr. Mellenthin’s remains were then cremated and scattered from an airplane. He was active in civic affairs and owner of medical laboratories hearing his name here.