Arpie Myrtle Hill Coley

Arpie Myrtle Melton Hill Coley
Birth
16 Sep 1908
Union County, Mississippi, USA
Death
3 Mar 1998 (aged 89)
Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery
Pleasant Ridge, Union County, Mississippi, USA
Memorial ID
65698295 · View Source
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NEW ALBANY - Myrtle Hill Coley, 89, died Tuesday, March 3, 1998 at Baptist Hospital in Oxford. She was born Sept. 16, 1908 in Union County to Joe and Emmie Garrison Melton. She was a homemaker and a member of the Parks Baptist Church. She enjoyed flowers and gardening.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church with the Rev. Bill Wages and the Rev. David Blackwell officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. United Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Survivors include her husband, Jack Coley of New Albany; one son, Ralph Hill of New Albany; three daughters, Sammie Hill Jones of Oxford, Katie Hawks of Kansas City, MO., and Betty Dean Treadaway of New Albany; three sisters, Odell Boyd of Senatobia, Annie V. Greer of Guntown and Willard Harmon of New Albany; nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Jimmy Coley, Lloyd Winford Williams, Dennis Rakestraw, Benny Rakestraw, Jerry Pannell and Galloway Jones.

The body will lie in state at the church one hour before services for visitation.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the Heart or Diabetes Foundation or a church of the donor's choice.
Family Members
Parents

King Joseph Melton
1879–1952

Emma Louizer "Emmie Lou" Garrison Melton
1878–1970

Spouses

Reuben Vestle Hill
1908–1961 (m. 1927)

Jack Coley
1910–2004 (m. 1964)

Siblings

Dalton Leroy Melton
1902–1968

Lillie May Melton Hardy
1903–1964

Lou Tishey Melton Owen
1905–1997

Will Lee Melton
1910–1987

Annie May Evel Melton Little
1912–1992

Virdie Odell Melton Boyd
1914–2012

Nancy Modelle Melton Williams
1917–1990

Annie Vee Melton Wages
1919–2019

Edna Willard Melton Harmon
1923–2021

Children

Sammie Ruth Hill Jones
1930–2024

Katie Louise Hill Enright-Hawks
1941–2015

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