Elsie Claudene Spurlock Melton

Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie Claudene Daniels Spurlock Melton, 92 of Bloomington Springs, will be held Friday November 14, at 10 a.m. in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Bro. Danny Hembree will officiate. Burial will follow at Cope Cemetery in the Monroe community of Pickett Co. Mrs. Melton's family will receive friends Thursday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and again Friday from 9 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Melton died Monday morning November 10, 2014 in Cookeville Regional Medical Center. She was born September 11, 1922 in Clay County, TN to the late Louis Clyde and Pearl Ann Collins Daniels. Mrs. Melton left Tennessee at the start of WWII, and moved to Michigan to work as a ‘Rosie the Riveter.' She later owned a beauty salon in Pontiac, MI before moving back to Tennessee in 1967. She was a beloved wife, mother, sister, grandmother and great grandmother. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of over 40 years, Revel (nmn) Spurlock and by her second husband of 17 years, Malcolm S. Melton; two sisters, Laura Mae Miller and Alice Walker; and by four brothers, Tommy, A.E. (Dick), Joe and Gene Daniels. She is survived by her daughter, Susan (Charles) Richardson of Bloomington Springs; five grandchildren, Tim (Jessica) Childers, Rachel (Robert) , Sara (David) Mora, Justin Childers and Caleb (Hannah) Childers; four great grandchildren, Wyatt Childers, Camila Mora, Sophie Mora and Gavin Childers; three sisters, Patsy Corns of Lexington, KY, Chee Chee (Ed) Bowery of Richmond, IN, Billie Riley; and by a brother, Jackie (Mary) Daniels, both of Monroe, TN. Memorial contributions may be made to Upper Cumberland Christian Academy, 882 County House Rd., Livingston, TN 38570.