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Norma Elizabeth Rhodes was born in Garrett, Texas, near Dallas. Melvin Nolan Freeman "Mel" Gabler worked in the oilfields, served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, and was a clerk for thirty-nine years for Esso, now part of Exxon-Mobil, until he retired in 1974. He later opened a Christian drive-in theater. The couple married in 1942. Melvin Gabler died at the age of eighty-nine of a brain hemorrhage after falling at his home.
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