Shawnee News-Star:
March 27, 2007:
Prague resident Bessie M. Melton died Sunday, March 25, in Prague at the age of 76.
Bessie was born April 11, 1930, in Johnson Community to Lonnie and Alma Dickenson.
She grew up in the Johnson Community and attended Johnson school as a child.
Bessie married Dub Melton on March 11, 1948.
Bessie went to work as a nurse's aid in the mid 1960's. She worked at both Shawnee Medical Center and Mission Hill hositals as well as private duty nursing until her retirement in 1986. She was a member of Trinty Baptist Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents, husband, two brothers, and three sisters.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, John and Sharon Meton of Prague; two granddaughters, Emily and Sarah Melton of Prague; four sisters, Jessie Hunton of Prairie Grove, Ark., Frankie Bland and her husband, Geoerge, of Tecumseh, Alene Vasquez of Shawnee and Myrtle Hood and her husband, Willie, of Shawnee; several nieces and nephews.
Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Johnson Cemetery with the Rev. Kevin Worley and Chris Lee officiating.
Shawnee News-Star:
March 27, 2007:
Prague resident Bessie M. Melton died Sunday, March 25, in Prague at the age of 76.
Bessie was born April 11, 1930, in Johnson Community to Lonnie and Alma Dickenson.
She grew up in the Johnson Community and attended Johnson school as a child.
Bessie married Dub Melton on March 11, 1948.
Bessie went to work as a nurse's aid in the mid 1960's. She worked at both Shawnee Medical Center and Mission Hill hositals as well as private duty nursing until her retirement in 1986. She was a member of Trinty Baptist Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents, husband, two brothers, and three sisters.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, John and Sharon Meton of Prague; two granddaughters, Emily and Sarah Melton of Prague; four sisters, Jessie Hunton of Prairie Grove, Ark., Frankie Bland and her husband, Geoerge, of Tecumseh, Alene Vasquez of Shawnee and Myrtle Hood and her husband, Willie, of Shawnee; several nieces and nephews.
Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Johnson Cemetery with the Rev. Kevin Worley and Chris Lee officiating.
Family Members
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Maurine Dickenson Hale
1920–2000
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PVT Vernon Dickenson
1921–1944
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Jessie Mae Dickenson Hunton
1922–2012
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Lena Faye Dickenson Washington
1924–1990
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Ruth L. Dickenson Goodnight
1926–2005
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Lonnie Gene Dickenson
1928–1988
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Myrtle Dickenson Hood
1932–2019
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Virgie Alene Dickenson Vasquez
1934–2013
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Frankie Dickenson Bland
1937–2018
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