Meady Mae Vernon

Marietta Monitor

April 30, 1999, page 4 Courtesy of Ray and Elreeta Weathers

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Meady Mae Vernon of the Simon Community were Monday at 10:30 a.m. in the River of Life Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Kenny McMath officiating.

Mrs. Vernon was born December 10, 1927, at Simon, the daughter of Con and Pearl Powell Nipp, and died April 27, 1999, in Mercy Memorial Health Center, Ardmore, at the age of 71.

A resident of the Simon area all of her life, she married Melvin Vernon on May 14, 1947, at Gainesville, Texas. Mrs. Vernon owned and operated the Kiddie Korner Day Care Center of Wilson for 12 years before her retirement. She was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church of Wilson for 31 years, which is now the River of Life Pentecostal Holiness Church. Mrs. Vernon was a Sunday School teacher for 43 years in the Pentecostal and Assembly of God faiths.

Survivors include her husband, Melvin Vernon of the home; four sons and daughters-in-law, David Vernon and Betty Jane DeFoor, Dale and Judy Vernon, Dennis and Kathryn Vernon and Dean and Jeanne Vernon, all of Wilson; four daughters and sons-in-law, Connie and Clifford King and Debbie and James Hayes of Wilson, Danell and Danny Bray of Healdton, and Denise and Jim Menke of Ardmore; seven brothers, Charles Nipp of Lyons, Nebraska, Clyde Nipp an Curtiss Nipp of the Simon Community, Conver Nipp, Gene Nipp and Donald Nipp of Wilson, and John Nipp of Overbrook; seven sisters, Parlee Russell and Oleta Self of Leon, Elnora Phillips and Carolyn Westmoreland of Ardmore, Lorene Montgomery of Marietta, Nadine Goode of Wilson, and Linda Williams of Rubottom; 26 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Vernon was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Dorlene Nipp in 1936; and a brother, Claude Nipp in 1990.

Services were directed by Kennedy Funeral Home with interment in the Vernon Family Cemetery at Simon. Pallbearers were sons, David Vernon, Dale Vernon, Dennis Vernon and Dean Vernon; and nephews, Keith Phillips and Bill Russell. Honorary bearers were grandsons and sons-in-law.