Mary Ellen Melton, 88

A retired employee of Ford Motor Company and a member of the Assembly of God, she was the daughter of the late Franklin and Josie Smith Ritchey. She was married to Glenn William Melton who preceded her in death in 1967. She is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Cornelia and Charles Cannon, Geneva and Eugene Szymaniak and Shari and Larry Martin; son and daughter-in-law, Harold and Karen Melton; 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Rosezetta Page and Mazil Lawrence and brother, Aris Ritchey; sister-in-law, Agnes Byrd of McMinnville; and brothers-in-law, Horace Melton and Cleburn Melton, both of McMinnville.

Funeral service was held Saturday in High?s Chapel with Jim Short officiating. Burial followed at Blues Hill Cemetery.

High Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.