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He met his wife, Bea, through a friend and they dated about a year before they got married. They and their four children lived in Denver, Colorado and in Brighton, Colorado where they lived on a small country acreage where they were able to have animals and activities not available to most city kids. Melvin and Bea later moved to Fort Collins, Colorado to be closer to family. They bought and lived in Melvin's parents' house where the family spent many summers gardening and canning vegetables for the family.
Many family gatherings were spent there and Melvin loved going "All out" to make holidays special for his kids. There have now been 5 generations of family to grow up in his house. Home and family meant everything to Melvin and he worked hard to give ALL he could.
Melvin was a man of very high I.Q. He graduated from North Park High School, Walden, Colorado. He had a desire to be in the wildlife/forestry industry and attended college in Gunnison and at CSU.
In Melvin's younger years he worked on ranches in Walden. In 1963 he joined the United States Air Force and was stationed in Okinawa, Japan during Vietnam. Later he went on to a hard working life of drywall and construction. After many years of enduring the hard back breaking work of construction, he decided to go back to school to work on computers. He retired from Thompson School district, Loveland, Colorado after many years of repairing computers.
He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Roy Stanley Potter.
Melvin is survived by his devoted and loving wife, Beatrice; children, Darla (Joe) Woodman, Russell (Becky) Stutzman, Carla (Joe) Mullins, Tina (Snyder) Lebehn; 12 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren; brother, Maurice (Mary) Potter and sister, Judith McKee (Potter); aunt(s), and numerous cousins.
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