Mitchell County NcArchives Obituaries.....Melton, Ruth Marie December 15, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Julia Williams Kodak jkodak@aol.com December 31, 2007, 2:01 pm Mitchell News Journal Dec 26, 2007 RUTH MARIE MELTON ELIZABETHTON, TN - Ruth Marie Melton, 81, formerly of Bakersville, died Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007 at Brown County Hospital in Georgetown, Ohio. Born in Johnson City, Tenn., she was a daughter of the late John Wesley and Rebecca Greer Miller. She was a homemaker and member of Odom's Chapel Freewill Baptist Church. Survivors include two daughters, Carol "Susie" Goode of Elizabethton, and Naomi Hoydal of Bethel, Ohio; two sons, Kenneth Melton of Newland, and Kevin Melton of Spruce Pine; a sister, Blanche Johnson of Mobile, Ala.; and six grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Henline-Hughes Funeral Home in Bakersville. The Rev. Steve Williams officiated. Burial was at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Veterans National Cemetery in Johnson City. The family received friends from 5:30 p.m. until the service hour Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38103. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/mitchell/obits/m/melton1348gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb