Roselyn Dickinson Wightman Kelly

Published 6:00 am Monday, November 5, 2001

Services for Roselyn Dickinson Wightman Kelly of Brookhaven are2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel withburial in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Rusk, Texas.

Visitation is Monday, Nov. 5, from 1-2 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Kelly, 94, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2001, at King’s DaughtersMedical Center. She was born in Rusk, Texas, on Nov. 29, 1906, tothe late John Stanhope and Lydia Elizabeth Dickinson Wightman.

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She was a teacher. She a graduate of Ruck College and SouthernMethodist University, where she was a Tri Delta. She was a memberof the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution.

Preceding her in death were her parents and husband, Pope KellySr.

Survivors are her son and daughter-in-law, Pope Jr. and JeanetteCrawford Kelly of Canton; grand-daughter, Roselyn Kolleen KellyLongmire of Old Hickory, Tenn.; grandson, James Pope Kelly III ofFt. Lauderdale, Fla.; grandson-in-law, Mark A. Longmire;great-granddaughter, Tess Avery Longmire; and two nephews, GeorgeMarshall Young and William Kelly Young, both of Ft. Worth,Texas.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First UnitedMethodist Church of Brookhaven.