Jewell Cross Melton, 85, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Saturday, September 10, 2011, at Life Care Center.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Monday, September 12, 2011, at Paulk Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Clayton Dowd and the Rev. Rex Johnson officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 9:30 until the funeral hour on Monday at the funeral home.
Ms. Melton was born March 29, 1926, in Hawkinsville, Georgia to the late Samuel Eli Cross and Clara Mae Kitchens Cross. She lived in Fitzgerald most of her life where she was a homemaker. Ms. Melton was a member of the former Callie Garbutt Baptist Church.
She is survived by a brother and sister-in-law: Lester and Evelyn Cross of Fort Valley; several nieces and nephews including: Sam Cross, Homer Cross, Todd Cross and Debbie Holcomb; and friend and caregiver: Frances Roberts.