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MELSON Inez
Born Inez Mary Athalie Conroy.
Date of birth : March 3, 1900, Montana.
Date of death : July 6, 1985, Los Angeles (
).
Profession accontant, financial advisor.
Addresses
* 1900 : Butte City, Silver Bow County, Montana (
)
* 1935-1940 : 609 West 105th Street, Los Angeles (
)
* 1945 : 1052 North Coral Drive, Los Angeles
* 1959-1960 : 2499 Horseshoe Canyon Road, Los Angeles
Her office
* 1953 : 9128 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. Tel : CRestview 6-1129.
* 1962 : 9110 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Portait 
,
Story
Her parents William Alexander Conroy (January 1873, New Brunswick, Canada) and Agnes Donalda Benson
(December 25, 1879, County Mayo, Ireland-February 7, 1959, Los Angeles 
) married on April 12,
1899, Butte, Montana (
,
).
Widow, Agnes remarried on June 24, 1919, in Butte, Montana with William C.Barker (
-
).
With William Conroy, the had 5 children :
* Inez Mary (
)
* Mary Teresa (July 19, 1902, Montana-February 26, 1926, Montana)(
)
* Azalea Margaret (January 19, 1903, Montana-June 15, 1974, Los Angeles)(
)
* Alexandrea Katherine (November 1st, 1906, Montana-February 26, 1960, Los Angeles)(
)
* William Eugene (March 15, 1913, Montana-October 15, 1984, California)(
).
On February 17, 1925, birth of Inez' daughter Emma Louise Barker (Emmy Lou Scott)(
,
). The father was Benjamin Arthur Scott (September 22, 1881 or 1886, South Dakota or
Illinois-November 5, 1945, Los Angeles 
).
They married on September 27, 1926, in Los Angeles (
,).
On October 13, 1942, Benn A. Scott requested a change in their daughter's personal record. They didn't live
together any more at that time and Inez name is no more Scott (). She lived with her sister Azalea's family, 609 West 10th Street, Los Angeles, from 1935 to 1940 (at least). In 1940 she worked as a
secretary in real estate ().
On February 10, 1942 she married Harold Wesley "Pat" Melson (November 12,1904, Nebraska-September 21,
1967, California 
) in Las Vegas 
and on December 7, 1945
in Los Angeles (
,
). They didn't have children together.
Benn A. Scott died on November 5, 1945. On the marriage certificate with Harold Melson (December 1945), Inez was named Scott, widowed, her address is the one of Benn Scott's former house.
Link with Marilyn
In 1951 she was hired by Marilyn as financial advisor and was in charge of Gladys Baker's care.
On April 30, 1953, check in the name of the Marilyn Monroe Trustee Account
.
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 
.
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 to Aaron Frosch dated November 7, 1963 
-
.
Letter from Eileen Atkinson about the Monroe estate, dated December 4, 1963 
,
.
Letter from Earl Wilson dated May 14, 1965 
.
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 from Art Berman of the Los Angeles Times, dated June 25, 1965 
.
Letter to Charles Champlain of the Los Angeles Times, dated June 30, 1965 
.
Lettre from Gladys Baker dated August 10, 1965 
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.
Letter to Aaron Frosch dated March 1, 1966 
.
Visiting Gladys at the Rockhaven Sanitarium in 1966
,
,
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;
Letters from Rockhaven Sanitarium (from 1959 to 1961 ) 
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