PAUL H. VAN PELT

Paul H. Van Pelt, b October 23,1889, d October 30, 1963 and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin, Falls County, Texas - was married to Winnie D. Higgins, b �December 23, 1892, d July 11, 1961 and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin--a daughter of Thomas Benton and Mary Elna(Fountain) Higgins, who resided in the Reagan Community of Falls County, Texas, where he served for fifty years as Postmaster.
Paul and Winnie (Higgins) Van Pelt were the parents of two children:
Loretta Van Pelt, b August 29, 1917 - who married first to Robert Abel and had a son, Robert George Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. - who resides in California where he is a Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University, and is not married. Loretta married second on November 15, 1946 to Burke Kirkpatrick, and had one daughter, Abigail Kirkpatrick, b December 8, 1951, who resides in Marlin, Texas, is unmarried, and is a member of First Presbyterian Church of Marlin.
George H. Van Pelt, b May 18, 1925, d November 14, 1964 and buried in Calvary Cemetery by his parents - was a Marlin High School graduate. He served in the 766 Base Unit in Iceland, in the U.S. Army Air Corps, during World War II. George married in Waco, Texas to Nan Johnson, and they had one son, Charles H. Van Pelt, who died young.

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