Nettie Melvin-1-31-2025

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memorial page for 

Nettie Pearl Melvin

July 10, 1939
~January 20, 2025

OBITUARY

SERVICE DETAILS

VISITATION- Friday 1-31-2025
Pilgrim Baptist Church
172 Shrewsbury Ave.
Red Bank, NJ 07701
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

FUNERAL SERVICE - Friday 1-31-2025
Pilgrim Baptist Church
172 Shrewsbury Ave.
Red Bank, NJ 07701
11:00 AM

INTERMENT
Private

Nettie Pearl Melvin, 85, was born to the late Deacon Homer F. Credle and Roseaddie Smith Credle on Monday, July 10, 1939, in Mesic, NC. She peacefully departed this life early Monday morning on January 20, 2025, at Hackensack Meridian Health Ocean University Medical Center, with her family by her side.

Nettie was baptized at an early age at Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Mesic, NC. She was educated at the Mesic Community School and graduated from Pamlico County Training School in 1958 in Bayboro, NC.

Nettie moved to Red Bank, NJ, raised her family, and became a long-time member of Pilgrim Baptist Church. She moved to Tinton Falls, NJ in the early 1990’s.

Nettie worked at Leon’s Laundromat in Red Bank, NJ before beginning her nursing career at the Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital, from where she retired. She was an Eastern Star Martha Chapter #37 O.E.S - P.H.A. at the Masonic Hall in Red Bank, NJ.

While raising her children in Montgomery Terrace, Red Bank, NJ – she was referred to as “MOM MELVIN” and as THE WOMAN WITH THE GARDEN’S IN THE FRONT AND BACK YARDS.

Nettie is preceded in death by her husband Eddie Melvin, son Maurice Melvin, daughter Linda Pearl Credle; siblings, Homer Credle Jr., Herman L. Credle, Harold Credle, Ella Mae Jackson, Guy Lovett Credle and Ruby Sawyer.

Nettie leaves to cherish her memories, daughters Suzanne Young (Paul) and Leona Melvin; son Christopher Melvin, Sr. (Kysha); Brothers Glenwood Earl Credle of Red Bank, NJ and Samuel Whitehurst (Cherry) of Spotsylvania, VA; sisters: Neva Ruth Branch, Joyce Marie O’Neal of New Bern, NC and Laula Elizabeth Allen of Garner, NC, a host of grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.

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