Bio: Rykiel, Melissa Anne (Birth - 1979)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Rykiel, Hansen, Mazola, Howard, Hagedorn

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 4/12/1979

Rykiel, Melissa Anne (Birth – April 1979)

When Melissa Anne Rykiel was born in Milwaukee on April “?” to Randy and Tammy Rykiel, she joined the more than 150 members of the family of Mrs. Christine Hansen, a resident of Memorial Home in Neillsville.

Mrs. Hansen, mother of 13 children, has 57 grandchildren and 86 great-grandchildren. Melissa is the first great-great- grandchild.

Melissa’s mother is Tammy Mazola, daughter of John and Donna Mazola, Milwaukee. Melissa’s great-grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Mazola of rural Fairchild and Mrs. Louise Howard of Neillsville. A great-great-grandfather, Richard Hagedorn, also lives at Memorial Home in Neillsville.