OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM FIND-A-GRAVE WEBSITE:

Deering D. Melin
BIRTH          10 Sep 1891, Hobart, Lake County, Indiana, USA
DEATH          24 Apr 1968 (aged 76), Vista, San Diego County, California, USA
BURIAL         Eternal Hills Memorial Park, Oceanside, San Diego County, California, USA
MEMORIAL ID    143111121

From a family scrapbook, undated news clipping:

Deering Melin, age 76 of Vista, California, a former Hobart (IN) resident, passed away on April 24. He is survived by his wife, the former Alice Sarver; one son Deering Melin Jr. of Palo Alto, California, 7 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.

Interment was in Eternal Hills, in Oceanside, California

This information and pictures were obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143111121/deering-d-melin. The picture above was originally obtained from the 1909 HHS Aurora yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1909Images/.