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MELSON Inez
Born Inez Mary Conroy.
Date of birth : March 3, 1900, Montana.
Date of death : July 6, 1985, Los Angeles (
).
Occupation financial advisor.
Address
in 1900 : Butte City, Silver Bow County, Montana
(
).
in 1953 : 9128 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. Tel : CRestview 6-1129.
in 1962 : 9110 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Portait 
,
Story
Her parents William Alexander Conroy (1873, New Brunswick, Canada) and Agnes Donalda Benson (1881, County
Mayo, Ireland) married on April 12, 1899, Butte, Montana (
,
).
They had 5 children :
-Inez Mary (
)
-Mary Teresa (July 19, 1902, Montana-February 26, 1926, Montana)(
)
-Azalea Margaret (January 19, 1903, Montana)(
)
-Alexandrea Katherine (November 1st, 1906, Montana)(
)
-William Eugene (March 13, 1913, Montana-October 15, 1984, California)(
).
Inez first married maybe in September 1926 with a Mr Scott, from who she became widow.
On December 27, 1945 she married Harold Wesley "Pat" Melson (November 12, 1904, Nebraska-September 21,
1967, California)(
)(
,
).
It was his third marriage (
) and was divorced.
They were both accountants. They didn't have children.
Link with Marilyn
In 1951 she was hired by Marilyn as financial advisor and was in charge of Gladys Baker's care.
.
On November 2, 1953, letter from Lloyd Wright : 
.
November 23, 1953 : letter sent to Ervin Goddard : 
.
On October 27, 1954, she testified in favor of Marilyn against DiMaggio when they divorced, at the Santa
.
1955-1960 : during Marilyn's New York period, she kept advising her, without dealing directly with her business.
Letter from Frank Delaney dated January 29, 1955 : 
.
Letters from Lloyd Wright dated February 8,1955 : 
,
,
.
Memo dated February 15, 1955 with Ella Fitzgerald's publicist : 
.
Letter from Frank Delaney dated September 2, 1955 : 
.
Letter from Frank Delaney dated November 2, 1955 : 
,
.
Letter to Frank Delaney dated November 11, 1955 : 
.
March 3, 1956, press conference for the production of "Bus Stop" : 
,
-
Check from the Marilyn Monroe Productions dated March 22, 1956 : 
.
Letter to Marilyn dated February 5, 1957 : 
.
Letter to Arthur Miller dated June 24, 1957 : 
.
Letter to Marilyn dated December 5, 1957 : 
,
.
Letter from Marilyn dated end 1957 or 1958 : 
,
.
Letter to Marilyn dated May 1, 1958 : 
.
Letter to Marilyn dated September 18, 1958 : 
.
Letter to Marilyn dated October 28, 1958 : 
.
Letter from May Reis dated May 5, 1958 : 
.
On August 5, 1962 she was one the first people called and informed about Marilyn's death, and called at Brentwood's home.
On August 6, 1962, she came to the Los Angeles International Airport and pick Berniece Miracle up
(
), then they went together at the Westwood Village Mortuary, to complete the required
formalities for the funeral 
,
-
,
.
On August 7, 1962, she went to Marilyn's home, to take the clothes worn in her casket; she was accompanied by Berniece Miracle and Eunice Murray
,
,
,
.
She attended Marilyn's funeral on August 8, 1962 at the Westwood Memorial Park
,
,
,
Marilyn's personal documents she took from the Brentwood house have been pucrchased by Donald Spoto.
Gladys Baker sent her a thank-you letter on August 22, 1962 : 
.
She kept visiting her after Marilyn's death
;
,
,
;
On August 6, 1964, on Marilyn's grave, in Westwood 
Letter of Alvah Bessie, screenwriter dated August 8, 1962 : 
.
Letter to Joe DiMaggio, dated September 6, 1962 : 
.
Letter from the Orthopaedic Hospital, dated September 7, 1962 : 
.
Letter about the Estate of Marilyn Monroe, dated September 24, 1962 : 
.
Manuscript on which she worked but was never published : 
.
Letter from Eileen Atkinson about the Monroe estate, dated December 4, 1963 : 
,
.
Letter from the Los Angeles Times dated June 15, 1965 : 
.
Letter from Frank Delaney dated June 22, 1965 : 
.
Letter to Frank Delaney dated June 24, 1965 : 
.
Letter to Charles Champlain of the Los Angeles Times, dated June 30, 1965 : 
.
Letter from Earl Wilson dated May 14, 1965 : 
.
Letter to Aaron Frosch dated March 1, 1966: 
.
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