TITLE:  Mary Lee Middleton Kelly

SOURCE: The Beaufort Gazette, May 30, 2001

SUBMITTED: The Beaufort Gazette

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, May 2001

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Mary Lee Middleton Kelly 

Mary Lee Middleton Kelly, 45, of Burton, died Friday, May 25, 2001, at Beaufort Memorial 
Hospital. Wake services will be 7 to 8 p.m. today at Marshel's Wright-Donaldson Home For 
Funerals. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Jericho A.M.E. Church, Burton, with burial in 
Laurel Bay Cemetery. Mrs. Kelly was born Oct. 12, 1955, in Savannah, a daughter of Martha M. 
Wilson and the late Freddie Gregory. She was a 1973 graduate of Beaufort High School. She was 
employed at Lowen Inc. for the past 28 years, where she was a foreman. She was an active member 
of Jericho A.M.E. Church of Port Royal, where she was a member of the Trustee Board, Usher Board,
president of the Pulpit Aid, director of Girl Scouts, assistant director of the YPD, assistant 
superintendent of the church school, treasurer of the senior choir and a member of the 
hospitality committee. Surviving are her mother of Laurel Bay; her husband, William Kelly Jr. of 
Burton; two daughters, Melissa Bates and Zakiya Kelly of Burton; two sons, Sgt. Jawara Middleton 
and Prince Kelly of Burton; a stepson, William Elon Kelly III of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; seven 
sisters, Lucille Wilson of Port Royal, Delores Culver of Stuart Point, Doretha Middleton of 
Manhattan, N.Y., Joann Lynard of St. Helena Island, Christine Middleton of Summerville, Carolyn 
Deloach of Burton and Easter Wilson of Beaufort; eight brothers, Earl Middleton of Virginia 
Beach, Va., Prince Middleton of High Point, N.C., Joseph Middleton of Warner Robins, Ga., Jacob 
Wilson of Lady's Island, Andrew Middleton, Leon Middleton, Jack Wilson and Peter Wilson, all of 
Burton; two stepbrothers, Harris Wilson of Conway and Jimmy Wilson of Columbia; four 
grandchildren and other relatives. 



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