Obituary: Christian Melinda De Los Santos, April 2010

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
June 2010

***********************************************************************
The Observer/Enterprise, Coke County, TX - April 30, 2010

DE LOS SANTOS	
	
Christian Melinda De Los Santos, age 27, died April 2010, as a result of a
traffic accident near her home in Berwick, Pennsylvania.  Memorial services 
in Robert Lee will be Saturday, May 1, 2010, 1:00 pm at the Robert Lee 
Baptist Church Sanctuary.

Christian was born on August 25, 1982, at Darnall Army Community Hospital, 
Fort Hood, Texas.  She graduated from Robert Lee High School in 2000,  with 
the highest female grade point average in the senior class.  While in high 
school, she assisted her father, J. D. McClelland, as a welder's helper on 
the Wildcat Mountain Ranch south of Robert Lee.  She had attended college 
in Pennsylvania, and had obtained her Ohio real estate license.
 
She is survived by her three sons, Aiden Mertz (7, her little frog); 
Isaac Mertz (5, her twinkle little star);  and Logan Mertz (2, her snowflake).  
She is also survived by her father, J. D. McClelland and family; mother, 
Karen M. Wreyford Jackson and family; brother, Vincent C. McClelland and family,  
grandmother, Wella Reva Ward; and numerous other family and friends including 
Jim and Mary McClelland and family; De Los Santos family; the Mertz family; 
Terry, Rhonda, T J, and Luke Smith; Don Wreyford and family; Mike Sanders; 
Glenn and Deann Wreyford; John Ward and family; Sid and Christine Wreyford; 
and Kizer and friends.

Permission granted by The Observer/Enterprise for publication
in the Coke County TXGenWeb and the Coke County Archives of the USGenWeb.

Copyright.  All rights reserved.