Obituaries for May 23, 2010

Ms. Patricia "Patty" Colvin, 52, of Dyersburg, TN died Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at her residence. She was a homemaker.

Evansville Free Holiness Church will host a Memorial Service on Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. with Bro. Mac Daniels officiating.

Survivors include her special friend, James Hall of Dyersburg; two daughters, Virginia Daniels of Dyersburg and Melissa Borders of Valley, Al.; and seven grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents Melvin and Virginia Southerland.

Online condolences are available on our website- www.curryfuneral.com

Donald Lynn Melton, 89, of Dyersburg, died Friday, May 21, 2010 at The Bridge at Ridgely.

He was a retired employee for the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Los Angeles, Calif. and Dyersburg for 45 years, a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church, a former member of the Hess Masonic Lodge, the Dyersburg Moose Lodge, the Dyersburg Jaycees where he was named Outstanding Young Man of 1953, and a U.S. Navy Veteran of World War II.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with the Rev. Lynn King officiating.

Survivors include his wife, Verness Melton of Dyersburg; two daughters, Priscilla Melton of Dyersburg and Dawna Ferguson and husband, Lee, of Winter Springs, Fla.; two grandchildren, Robert Rushing and Tammy Fernandez, both of Winter Springs, Fla.; two great-grandchildren, Laticia Rushing of Orlando, Fla. and Justin Rushing of Winter Springs, Fla.; and a nephew, Chuck Jarred of Dyersburg.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Ike and Meda Alexander Melton.