Martha Belle Melnikoff, 84, of Canadensis, died Feb. 7 in Pleasant Valley Manor, Snydersville. She was married to Walter Melnikoff for 57 years.

A 1940 graduate of St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, she joined the Army as a combat nurse and 1st lieutenant and served at the 76th station hospital, 1942-46, in the Philippine Campaign and during the occupation of Japan, receiving a Bronze Star. Following the war, she and her husband owned and operated Mountain Cleaners.

Survivors: Husband; daughter, Sonia White of Alexandria, Va.; sister, Lorraine.

Tomko of Canadensis; niece, nephews. She was predeceased by a daughter, Alexis, in 1998.

Services: private. Call noon to 3 p.m. Saturday in the home. Arrangements, Bolock Funeral Home, Mount Pocono.

Contributions: Barrett Township Volunteer Ambulance Corps., Cresco.