Patricia (Benson) MELSON

MELSON, BENSON, LARSON, DOYLE, BOATWRIGHT, PETTY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/23/2010 at 19:01:51

Baxter Bulletin, Mountain Home, Arkansas
March 13, 2010

A funeral service for Patricia Benson Melson of Mountain Home, Arkansas, will be 2:00 P.M. Saturday, March 13, 2010 at Kirby Family Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Randy Ludwig officiating. Visitation will be from noon until service time at the funeral home. Pat died Wednesday, March 10, 2010 in Gassville Nursing Center, Gassville, AR, at the age of 79. Pat was born in Kanawha, IA, the daughter of Harvey and Irene Larson Benson. She married Allie Gene Melson on June 7, 1969 at Greenville, NC. She had been a professor at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Patricia had lived in Mountain Home, Arkansas since 1983 after moving from Virginia Beach, Virginia. She was the Past Chair of the Administrative Board, First United Methodist Church; Past President of the local and district UMW; Past President of the Welcome Club Alumni; volunteer tutor for the Literacy Council; and a volunteer of the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce. She enjoyed reading, bridge, needlework, puzzles and travel. In her travels she visited all seven continents. She was preceded in death by her husband and parents. Patricia Melson is survived by one daughter - Beverly (Johnny) Doyle of Pineville, NC; one son- A. G. (Susan) Melson of Roanoke, VA; five grandchildren: Rev. Trey Doyle, Rose Boatwright, Darren Petty, Lauren Petty, Jonathan Melson and seven great grandchildren; Krystal, Jacob, Zack, Jackson, Grayson, Luke and Sydney. Burial will be in the Kirby's Tucker Memorial Cemetery with grandsons as pallbearers. Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church or the Literacy Council. Arrangements are by Kirby Family Funeral Cremation Services.