OBITUARY

Rites for Melba Curran, longtime school secretary, are set for today

Services for Melba Grace Scalf Curran, a retired employee of the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Farmers Branch.

Mrs. Curran, 69, died Oct. 19 in her home after a year-and-a-half battle with pancreatic cancer.

Mrs. Curran worked 17 years as a secretary at R.E. Good Elementary School before retiring in 1997.

"One of the things that was real key about Mother was that she was a fanatic supporter of education, and especially girls education," said her daughter Beth Curran Tipple of Carrollton.

Mrs. Curran was born Nov. 25, 1930, in Dallas, but graduated from Denison High School in the late 1940s.

A 1952 graduate of the Dallas Methodist Hospital School of Nursing, Mrs. Curran spent the early-to-mid-'60s as a pediatric nurse at Oak Cliff Children's Medical Center and at the practice of Dr. Glenn C. Stayer.

Mrs. Curran was a Girl Scout troop leader and girls' soccer coach for a league in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch area, her daughter said.

Besides her daughter Beth, Mrs. Curran is survived by her husband, Roy Edward Curran of Farmers Branch; daughters, Rosemary Curran of Farmers Branch, Martha Curran Mehl of Carrollton; a son, Roy Edward Curran Jr. of Artesia, N.M; and 3 grandchildren.
Caption: PHOTO(S): Melba Curran. ;


The Dallas Morning News, The (TX) (Published as The Dallas Morning News) - October 23, 2000
Author/Byline: Michael Johnson, Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning NewsEdition: THIRD Section: NEWS Page: 23A