Melda Bell Einstein

Services for Melda Bell Einstein, 86, Lawrence, will be 11 a.m. today at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Burial will be in Beni Israel Cemetery.

Mrs. Einstein died Sunday, March 17, 2002, at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor.

She was born Dec. 3, 1915, in Pleasanton, the daughter of Zenas Andrew Blackman and Sylvia Estella Bruce. She graduated from Pleasanton High School and moved to Topeka to work for the State of Kansas. She worked in the Kansas Employment Agency for 20 years, then moved to Lawrence where she continued to work for the agency.

Mrs. Einstein was a member of the Jewish Community Center and Beta Sigma Phi, and she was active in local Jewish women’s organizations.

She married Robert E. Einstein on March 23, 1952, in Kansas City, Mo. He survives of the home.

Other survivors include a brother, Richard O. Blackman, Pomona; and a sister, Rubie Scott, Mound City.

The family suggests memorials to the Jewish Community Center, sent in care of the funeral home.