Madison County GaArchives Obituaries.....Melton, Betty Pridgen August 20, 2006
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Madison County Journal, 24 Aug 2006
Betty Pridgen Melton, 79, of Comer, died Sunday, August 20, 2006.

A native of Pike County, Ala., she was a former resident of Opelika, Ala., 
Phoenix City, Ala., and Gainesville. She was the daughter of the late Franklin 
and Addie Williams Grissett. She was a member of Westside Baptist Church in 
Gainesville, and recently attended Compass Community Church in Athens. Mrs. 
Melton was preceded in death by her first husband, Willie C. Pridgen; two 
brothers, Hayward Grissett and Willie Grissett; and two sisters, Bernice 
McLeod and Helen Grissett.

Survivors include her husband, Troy Melton, Comer; four children and spouses, 
Margaret and Sezai Grusel, Atlanta, W. Sam and Brenda Pridgen, Opelika, Ala., 
Jim E. and Nancy Pridgen, Sr., Comer, Dan and Linda Pridgen, Athens; a 
brother, Roy Grissett; two sisters, Viola Wilson and Mildred Johnson; eleven 
grandchildren; and eleven great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, August 22, in the chapel of Lord & 
Stephens Funeral Home, West, with the Revs. J.L. Yopp and James Carpenter 
officiating. Burial was in Evergreen Memorial Park.

Grandsons were pallbearers, Clint Pridgen, Keith Pridgen, Scott Pridgen, 
Daniel Pridgen, Jimmy E. “Jay” Pridgen, Jr., and Greg Stafford.

Lord & Stephens Funeral Home, West, Bogart, was in charge of arrangements.


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