Earthly Angel Mel Le Claire

When God placed me here in Spokane in 1966 - broke, in the middle of a divorce, and with five children to raise - life seemed doomed. With no job training or skills I wondered how I could survive. Little did I know that God had an earthly angel nearby.

Within weeks of moving to Spokane I met my neighbor Mel. He had been left with seven children of his own to raise. Mel, I soon learned, was and is the kindest person I have ever met. He would help every person he comes in contact with.

With no job, it was getting very hard to go to the laundromat to do laundry for the six of us. Mel said go to Goodwill, buy any machine, and he’d fix it for me. I did, and he did. From that day on he was there to mend everything that needed to be mended and do all the jobs I didn’t know how or wasn’t strong enough to do.

He never stops to think if he has time to do a helpful deed, he just makes time. He wires a room for a friend, removes snow for a neighbor, helps build a house for an injured daughter and son-in-law, takes the sick to the doctor, prays for the ill, cooks a meal to take to a shut-in, repairs broken toys for his grandchildren, helps everyone with car problems and still has time to be the most loving, totally devoted, sexiest lover, friend, and husband a woman could ever hope to have. He is an angel in the rarest form.