Melvin Elwood Folk

1915 - 2004  (88 years)

• Name	Melvin Elwood Folk
  Birth	8 Feb 1915	Mount Savage, Allegany County, Maryland
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Feb 2004	Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland
  Notes	FREDERICK — Melvin Elwood Folk Sr., 88, of Frederick, died Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004, at the Frederick Memorial Hospital in the company of close family. He was the husband of the late Elvie Mane Bowman Folk, whom he married on Dec. 24, 1946, and was preceded in death by on March 30, 2003. Born Feb. 8, 1915, in Mount Savage, he was the second of eight children born to Charles K. and Celia C. Rawlings Folk. He served in the U.S. Navy and was a veteran of World War II. Upon honorable discharge from the Navy, Mr. Folk worked as a civil servant at Fort Detrick. He graduated in 1947 from the Harmony School of Piano Tuning, Harrisburg, Pa., after which he began his career as an accomplished piano technician. He owned and operated a piano tuning business in Frederick from 1947 to 2003. He tuned all the pianos in the Frederick County school system. He tuned his last three pianos in October of 2003. He was an active member of the Marantha Church of God, Frederick. He was the beloved father of Melvin E. Folk Jr. of Lawrenceville, Ga., and Lillie M. Folk Dove of Frederick. Other survivors are his daughter-in-law, Sara Bickley Folk, Lawrenceville, and his son-in-law, William L. Dove of Frederick; four grandchildren, Ryan A. Folk and wife Sara of Lawrenceville, Megan L. Dove of Frederick, Jesse M. Dove of Coral Gables, Fla., and Haylee D. Folk of Statesboro, Ga.; a sister, Alva Jean Sgaggero of Frostburg; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by six siblings, William R. Folk, Cecil R. Folk, Harold L. Folk, Harleen V. Gomer, Dorothy M. Scell, and Lenora M. Phister. Mr. Folk is at the Robert E. Dailey & Son Funeral Home, 1201 Market St., Frederick, where the family will receive friends from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2004, in the funeral home with the Rev. Jerry Price, Marantha Church of God, officiating. Interment will be in Resthaven Memorial Gardens, Frederick. Memorials may be made in Mr. Folk’s name to the Marantha Church of God, 123 Byle Drive, Frederick, MD 21702. Monday, February 09, 2004, Cumberland Times-News Melvin Elwood FOLK and Elvie Mane BOWMAN were married on 24 Dec 1946.
  Person ID	I47313	McKenzie Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Charles K. Folk,   b. Nov 1886, Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland d. 5 Jul 1973, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland (Age ~ 86 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Celia Carol Rawlings,   b. Abt 1895, West Virginia d. 8 Oct 1973, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland (Age ~ 78 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Mar 1912
  Family ID	F16994	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elvie Mane Bowman,   b. Private
  Marriage	Private
  Children	1. Melvin Elwood Jr. Folk,   b. Private  [Father: private]  [Mother: private]   2. Lillie M. Folk,   b. Private  [Father: private]  [Mother: private]
  Family ID	F17738	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2021