Burke Melville

Burke Melville died Thursday, Mar. 15 at the age of 47. He was born on October 20, 1965 in Spokane, Wash. to Curtis and Shirley Melville. He was the youngest of four children, Jim, Andrea and Dave, and they lived on the family farm in Lamont.

The family moved to Pullman, Mich., Moses Lake, St Louis, Mo., Tracy, Calif., and back to Lamont. He and his siblings were a very tight knit group during these moves, and his older siblings often chauffeured him around Northern California taking him to tennis tournaments.

He studied electrical engineering at Washington State University, where he played on...