Mary Ellen Melton, 88

A production worker with Ford Motor Company and a member of the Assembly of God, she was the daughter of Franklin and Josie Smith Ritchey; and was preceded in death by her husband, Glenn William Melton in 1967.

She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Cornelia and Charles Cannon, Geneva and Eugene Szymaniak, Sheri and Larry Martin of Macomb, Mich.; son and daughter-in-law, Harold and Karen Melton; 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; sisters and brother-in-law, Rose and Zettie Page and Magil Lawrence; and brother, Aris Ritchey.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at High?s Chapel with Jim Short officiating. Burial will follow at Blues Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at High?s.

High Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.