MELINDA KAY BELL RICHEY

GREENVILLE, Texas- Melinda “Mel” Richey was born May 19, 1962, in Pittsburg, Kan., to Frank and Marcella (Price) Bell. She died at the age of 55 in Greenfield on January 31, 2018.

Friends and family may pay their respects at a Celebration of Life Service at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 24, at the First Baptist Church of Azle, 1017 Boyd Road.

A second memorial will take place in Lamar, Mo. at Logues Lake on Saturday, June 16. The time for this will be announced once plans are finalized.

Melinda attended school in Azle and in Lamar, Mo., where she graduated in 1980. She married John Richey in 1985 and they lived in the Mesquite and Greenville areas. She worked at Panasonic Industrial Devices for 21 years.

She loved being outdoors and spending time with friends and family. She enjoyed entertaining the kids and loved camping. Mel loved her motorcycle rides with her husband John, but her newest love was their airplane.

The family believes that if there isn’t already a purple room in heaven, Melinda will sure be trying to get one started. She loved anything and everything that was purple.

She had a large blended family and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins who will miss her dearly, including family from Iowa she affectionately called the “children of the corn”.

She was preceded in death by her stepfather, Walter “Daddy” Mason.

She is survived by her husband, John Richey, Greenville; mother Marcella Mason, Azle; father Frank Bell, Lamar, Mo.; stepmother Sharon Masterson and husband Jesse, Lamar, Mo.; sister Becky Bethel and husband Billy, Azle; brother, Tye Bell and wife Jolynn, Ft. Worth; brother, Gary Mason and wife Marsha, Chico and brother Steve Mason and wife Marci, Trophy Club.

The family requests in lieu of flowers that donations be made in her memory to raise mental health awareness at www.mentalhealthamerica.net/donate.