Oconee County GaArchives Obituaries.....McRee, Mell 1926
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Oconee Enterprise
Oconee Enterprise
Friday, October 22, 1926
Page 5

Sudden Death of Mell McRee Cast Pall of Sadness Over All
   Going to his store early Saturday morning, October 9, as had been his custom 
for years past, cleaning up the lamps and store in preparation for the day's 
business, Mr. Mell McRee, age 52, one of the most universally liked and 
respected of all our citizens, was suddenly seized with a heart attack so 
severe in nature that he would not wait his physician to come back to the store 
to try and relieve him and walked from his place of business to Dr. Smith's 
office in the Ashford building.  Hardly had he seated himself before he fell 
forward to the floor and expired before aid could be rendered him.  The shock 
of his death well-nigh paralyzed his loved ones and the entire community, 
coming as it did as a bold from a clear sky, and the hearts of all were 
saddened beyond measure at the passing of this exemplary man and citizen.
   Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, October 10th, from the 
Watkinsville Methodist church, his pastor, Rev. W.F. Lunsford, conducting the 
last sad rites in feeling manner, interment following in Johnson church 
cemetery among other loved ones who had preceded him to the better land.
   Nephews and cousins, Billie Veale, Carlton McRee, Milton McRee, Parks McRee, 
Bruce McRee and Leonard McRee, acted as pallbearers.
   Besides his heartbroken widow and real helpmeet for these many years, Mr. 
McRee is survived by two little daughters, Elizabeth and Clara Mell McRee, and 
innumerable other close relatives; one sister, Mrs. Emmett Robison; three 
brothers, B.R. McRee and J.O. McRee of our community, and Ernest McRee of 
Huntsville, Ala.
   Quiet, unassuming in manner, honorable and four-square in all his dealing 
with his fellowman, the same day in and day out, Georgia had not a better 
citizen than Mell McRee and we can ill-afford to lose such strong characters.  
So close does he seem to the writer that words fail us when we weakly attempt 
to portray his real worth to the community in which he numbered every living 
soul, young and old, as a friend.  Such men need no eulogy, for his every-day 
life is indelibly written upon the hearts of his associates, far more enduring 
than tales told in granite, and his example will live forever in the bosoms of 
those with whom he came in daily contact and knew and loved him for his true 
worth.
   Nothing that we may say now will heal the wounds of sorrow in the hearts of 
his loved ones, but it must be consoling in a large measure for them to realize 
the prceless (sic) heritage of a life so well-spent left them by husband and 
daddy, and to know that the treasured hope is held out to them to some day, 
somewhere, meet him again, if they continue to follow the crystal trail laid 
out by him during his all too brief sojourn in this vale of tears.

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