89 year old Reba Irene Delong Melton of Dowelltown died Sunday at NHC Healthcare Center. She was a Baptist and a factory worker. The funeral will be Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at the Chapel of Love-Cantrell Funeral Home. Wallace Caldwell and Darin Grantham will officiate and burial will be in Whorton Springs Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday from 11:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. and Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. until the service at 11:30 a.m. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence Otis Melton; parents, Arthur Freeman and Effie Delong Delong; grandchild, Randy Watts; four brothers, Jack, Clyde, Bill, and Brown Delong; and a son-in-law, Ray Hale. Survivors include three daughters, Imogene and husband Mitchell Adcock of Smithville, Margaret Hale of Liberty, and Christie and husband J.C. Byford of Dowelltown. A son, Clarence and wife Faye Melton of Lawrenceburg. Nine grandchildren, Charles Adcock, Loretta Adcock, Hoyte Hale, and Rosea Young all of Smithville, Frances Bell of Nashville, Danny and Donnie Watts of Liberty and Manchester, Tammye Grantham of Murfreesboro, and Blake Melton of Mississippi. Sixteen great grandchildren, two step great grandchildren, four great great grandchildren; and a sister, Dorothy Sellars of Ohio. Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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