Two area men;both wearing life preservers and both rated good swimmers;were drowned when their boat capsized during a fishing trip on Pymatuming Lake near Andover;Ohio;early Saturday morning;April 24;1965. Dead are Earl V.Blevins Sr.;68;Belle Vernon R.D.2;and Raymond Mellinger;51;who lived off old Route 51 in the vicinity of Blue Top Hotel near Perryopolis. Their bodies were recovered from the lake by sheriff deputies from Ashtabula;Ohio;yesterday. They had been missing since Saturday evening when they failed to return from a fishing trip abroad an aluminum boat with an outboard motor. The partially submerged boat was found aground one mile north of the causeway between Andover and Espyville;Pa. Blevins’ body was in the boat;one of his feet wedged beneath the seat. Mellinger’s body was found in the water a few yards away. Blevins;who had operated Earl’s Garage at 514 Sixth St.;Monessen;the past 20 years;and Mellinger;a mine foreman for General Refractories Co.;Perryopolis;had made frequent fishing trips together in the Pymatuming area. Police told Louis DeRosse;son-in-law of Mr.Blevins;that the motorboat owned by Mellinger may have struck a floating log. The weather was calm and the lake smooth;police said. DeRosse said both men were rated good swimmers and good boatsmen. Mr.Blevins is survived by his widow;Florence Maxon Blevins;one daughter;Mrs.Louis (Leatrice) DeRousse of Monessen;one son;Earl Jr.of Belle Vernon;four grandchildren;three sisters;Mrs.Ethel Wren of Holden;W.Va.;Mrs.Pheroba McCauley of Washington;D.C.;and Mrs.Ruth Schollaert of Belle Vernon. Friends are being received at the H.Denver Rhome Funeral Home;Monessen;from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. Service there Wednesday;April 28;at 11 a.m.in charge of the Rev.Herbert D.Stevenson;pastor of the Evangelical United Brethern Church;Monessen. Interment;Belle Vernon Cemetery. H.Denver Rhome;funeral director.

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