Captain Dr. Melville Joseph Aston ^{7,407,1236,5471,32421,32422,32770,32771,32772,32773,32774,32775,32776,32777}

  General Notes:

Dr. Melville Joseph Aston, 91, of this community, died Saturday in an area hospital. Born in Kingston, Pa., he moved here after his retirement from the U.S.

Navy. Dr. Aston was a member of the Blessed Sacrament Church. He attended the Mercersburg Academy, the University of Maryland a and George medical Washington in University, where he received his degree 1914. He served in the medical corps of the U.S.

Navy. Dr. Aston served as ship's medical officer in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean convoy duty overseas during World War I. He later became a regular Navy officer and served in many naval hospitals and all types of combatant ships during the years leading to World War II. At the outbreak of the Pacific War, Captain Aston commanded the U.S.

Navy hospital ship Solace, based in the southwest Pacific. He was commanding officer of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital in 1945-46. He later served on various naval staffs and as the commanding officer of the Naval Medical School at Bethesda, Md. He left active duty in 1950 and began his civilian medical career with the city of Philadelphia. Dr.

Aston was a member. of the American Medical Association, the Association of Military Surgeons, and was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was a founding member of the American Public Health Association a diplomate of the American Board of Urology. He was honored for his wartime service with numerous awards for personal bravery and professional skills. Surviving are: his wife, the former Ethel Bunting of Philadelphia; two sons, William of Jacksonville, Fla., and Melville of Washington, D.C.; and six grandchildren.

Mass of Christian Burial will be said at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Blessed Sacrament Church. A viewing will be held one hour prior to Mass at the church. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., at 11 a.m. Friday.

The family requests Mass cards. Arrangements are by the Gormley Funeral Home, Atlantic City..

United States
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Press of Atlantic City
1981
Oct
13
Page 16

  Noted events in his life were:

• USA Census, 1900, Kingston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA. ³²⁴²¹

• USA Census, 1910, Kingston, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA. ³²⁴²²

• School: George Washington University, 1917, Washington D.C., USA. ³²⁷⁷⁶

• Military Service, 12 Feb 1917, USA. ⁵²²⁵

• Occupation: Sailor - Leuitenant, US Navy Medical Corps, 1920. ³²⁷⁷³

• USA Census, 1920, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ³²⁷⁷³

• Travel: SS Ancon, 18 Nov 1928, Cristobal, Panama To New York, USA. ³²⁷⁷⁵

• Occupation: Seaman - USN, 1930. ³²⁷⁷¹

• USA Census, 1930, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ³²⁷⁷¹

• USA Census, 1940, Winchester, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. ³²⁷⁷⁷

• USA Census, 1950, Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, USA. ⁴⁰⁷

• Registered Death, Oct 1981, Margate City, Atlantic, New Jersey, USA. ³²⁷⁷⁴

• Registered Burial, Oct 1981, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA. ⁷

• Registered Death, 10 Oct 1981. ⁵⁴⁷¹

• Obituary: Press of Atlantic City, 13 Oct 1981, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Musa. ¹²³⁶

Melville married Catherine Walters Cone on 21 Oct 1913 in Washington D.C., USA.³²⁷⁷⁰ (Catherine Walters Cone was born on 4 Nov 1894 in Virginia, USA, died on 19 Dec 1918 in Washington D.C., USA ³²⁷⁷⁸ and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA ^32778,32779.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registered Marriage, 21 Oct 1913, District Of Columbia, USA. ³²⁷⁷⁰

  Marriage Notes:

Marriage information courtesy of S. Scarlett:
On Lic., She put born in 1883 to appear older

Civil marriage record in the name of Katherine W. Cone

Melville next married Margaret Ethel (Ethel) Bunting in 1920 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ³²⁷⁷¹.^,32772 (Margaret Ethel (Ethel) Bunting was born on 28 Dec 1899 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA,^{407,32771,32775,32777} died on 8 Oct 1991 and was buried in Oct 1991 in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registered Marriage, 1920, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ³²⁷⁷²