Dumes.Net
A website dedicated to the family of Chaim and Sadie Silk Dumes from Viski, Latvia
Dumes.Net
At the top of the tree are brothers Chaim (A), Jossel-Leib (B) and Schender (C). Each generation adds a letter; the letter represents your birth order, A for the 1st, B for the 2nd, etc.
So Sarah, first child of Chaim, is AA. Her husband, Jacob Kaplan, is Aa, the lower-case a indicating that he married into the Dumes family.
I've also used the lower-case letter for my two step-sons to indicate a non-bloodline Dumes relationship.
Irene's father
David Melcher
b. 1890
Irene's mother
Dorothy
b. 1898
Irene (Melcher) Dumes
Irene (Melcher) Dumes, age 88, of Evansville, Ind., died at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, September 22, 2005, at Good Samaritan Home.
Irene Dumes was retired from the Vanderburgh School Corporation, where she taught 3rd grade at Evans Middle School for 28 years. She graduated from Kent State and received her Master's in Education from the University of Evansville.
Irene was a life member of Temple Adath B'nai Israel and Hadassah, from which she received the 1988 Hadassah National Leadership Award and Hadassah's coveted Ima Award, for her work in behalf of Youth Allyah.She was a veteran of the United States Navy, where she served as a Wave during WWII. Mrs. Dumes was a member of the Indiana State Teachers Association, the Evansville Retired Teachers Association and the Friends of Angel Mounds Museum. Irene was a loving mother, grandmother, and devoted friend to those who knew her.
She is survived by two daughters, Linda Dumes Mulitsch of St. Louis, Mo., and Rebecca Dumes of Orlando, Fla.; one son, Jeff Dumes and wife, Jill of Evansville; one brother, Burt Melcher of Boca, Fla.; and two grandsons, Joey Dumes and Jacob Hall.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Hyman G. Dumes, in 1998.
Graveside services 1 p.m. Sunday, September 25, 2005, at Mount Carmel Cemetery, with Rabbi Barry Freidman and Phil Siegel officiating. Friends may call from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, September 25, 2005, at Boone Funeral Home, East Chapel, 5330 Washington Avenue, Evansville, Ind. 47715
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Hadassah, Temple Adath B'nai Religious School, 8440 Newburgh Road, Evansville, Ind. 47715 or The Alzheimer's Association, 4770 Covert Avenue, Evansville, Indiana 47714.
