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|death_place=Gonzales, Ascencion Parish

|death_place=Gonzales, Ascencion Parish

|death_date=June 7, 2014 (aged 72)

|death_date=June 7, 2014 (aged 72)

|residence=Gonzales, Louisiana

|residence=Gonzales, Louisiana

|spouse=Nell Irvin

|spouse=Nell Irvin

|children=Marie Neal<br>

|children=Marie Neal<br>

==Legacy==

==Legacy==

Irvin served only a small portion of his sentence and was released from prison on October 13, 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/|title=Melvin Irvin  No. 02292-095|publisher=Bureau of Prisons|accessdate=June 29, 2015}}</ref> He died of [[cancer]] in 2014 at the age of seventy-two. His visitation was held at the Hopeful Triumph Baptist Church in Darrow, Louisiana; his services, at Christian Assembly Full Gospel Church in Gonzales.<ref name=obit/> Tanzia Jones, a family friend, described Irvin, accordingly, "He met no strangers. He was affable and comfortable around national figures, state office holders, and everyday citizens, not only in Gonzales but around the world."<ref name=bio/>

Irvin served only a small portion of his sentence and was released from prison on October 13, 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/|title=Melvin Irvin  No. 02292-095|publisher=Bureau of Prisons|accessdate=June 29, 2015}}</ref> He died of [[cancer]] in 2014 at the age of seventy-two. His visitation was held at the Hopeful Triumph Baptist Church in Darrow, Louisiana; his services, at Christian Assembly Full Gospel Church in Gonzales, at which he is interred in the church cemetery.<ref name=obit/> Tanzia Jones, a family friend, described Irvin, accordingly, "He met no strangers. He was affable and comfortable around national figures, state office holders, and everyday citizens, not only in Gonzales but around the world."<ref name=bio/>

==References==

==References==