Lucia Grace Conte Melham

Thinking of you John, Tim and family. Your Mom was so beautiful and strong. I remember my father telling me she ate a clove of garlic everyday for health. That was right on! And I see him making her a Christmas wreath with fresh spruce then finding just the box to ship it carefully so it arrived undamaged. Her memory will be always with you.
Love, Char Conte Nicholson

Lucia was a neighbor of mine at Bridgeport. There was never a lovelier lady! She looked like a Contessa, but acted more like a comrade.

It was not widely known, but Lucia traveled the world for a year with her husband when he was the Grand Potentate of the North American Shrine. They met kings and queens and dined at the White House. She declared Harry Truman to be the most down to earth man she had ever met, and traded cookie recipes with Mamie Eisenhower. These stories had to be...