Melva Niles Barborka, a Broadway leading lady, passed away on March 12 in South Jordan, Utah. She succumbed to chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a neurological disease, at age 86. As Melva Niles, she stared in the Broadway runs Song of Norway and Magdalena, creating the role of Solis.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AM on March 17, 2012