Majvor “Marge” Melville

Majvor came to America when she was two years old from Sundsvall, Sweden with her parents, Erik Ho?gback and Anny Soderblookm. The family ended up in Preston, Washington, where, shortly after arriving, Majvor’s father died of pneumonia.

?Anny married Ole Pearson a few years later and gave Majvor three sisters, Anne Marie, Mary Lou and Leola.

Majvor went to school and then worked as a waitress at Scandia’s Restaurant in Seattle. It was in Seattle where she met the handsome sailor, Henry E. Melville, of Santa Cruz, California.

They married after World War II ended and had two children, Diane and Henry Jr. They moved to Issaquah, Washington, where they remained for 50 years.

After her husband passed away, Majvor moved to Sequim, where she met and made many good friends.

Majvor loved Sequim and Port Angeles. She loved to take rides up in the hills and down by the water, where she got the sense of Sweden. Majvor’s special hobbies were crocheting and “garage sale-ing.”

Majvor missed her family, though, so she moved to Arizona to be with her daughter and grandchildren. She stayed four years, but Sequim, like a siren’s song, called her back. She returned and remained in Sequim until she was no longer able to care for herself. She passed away in Arizona.

She leaves behind her daughter, Diane Phelps; granddaughter, Andrea Bales; great-granddaughters, Jaime and Sinclaire Bales; and her grandson, Beau Phelps. Also missing Majvor are her son, Henry Melville Jr.; and her granddaughter, Serena Melville, of Seward, Alaska.

She also leaves behind her sister, Anne Marie Dalman, of Port Angeles; and nephews, Steven Dalman, of Forks, and Dennis Dalman, of Port Angeles, and David Pivinski, of Enumclaw and three other nephews in the Portland and Salem, Oregon, areas.

Sequim was a place Majvor loved and her family extends their thanks to all her friends and neighbors who made her feel so loved and welcomed.