Elizabeth Ann Melton Lovell was welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven on March 28, 2020. Ann was born on June 22, 1948 to Evans and Mollie Jane Melton in Mobile. She graduated from Foley High School in 1966 and went on to earn her BS in Elementary Education followed by her MA in Early Childhood Education at the University of Alabama She always had a noticeable love for others, especially children, and used this passion to serve as an educator for most of her career. Possessing a joy and positivity that came from daily living out her faith in Jesus Christ her Savior, Ann earnestly desired for others to know Him sharing the gospel with people wherever she went. A favorite verse was Isaiah 52:7 NKJ, “How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’” She had a heart for encouraging others and was a reflection of Christ to family, friends, and strangers. Mentoring women in her church, helping busy mothers with their children, serving in the church’s children’s ministry, organizing prayer groups, and leading Bible studies were some of the many ways she served others. She also shared God’s love daily through scripture, encouraging messages, songs, and sermons through her online ministry, “God Moments by His Amazing Grace”. She worshipped her Lord joyfully, unashamedly, and powerfully, whether with her spiritual family at Calvary Chapel of Old Bridge N.J., or alone at the beautiful ocean that she loved so. A quote from her final online post reads: “He did it all, we did nothing. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” Ann was preceded in death by her parents, Evans and Mollie Jane Shiver Melton and her sister, Rosemary Melton Robinson (Gerry). She is survived by her sisters, Barbara Jane Melton Turner (Charles), Carolyn Sue Melton Stewart (Johnny), and her brothers, Michael Evans Melton (Magda) and Gerald Edward Melton (Bebe), as well as nine nieces and two nephews and numerous great nieces and nephews.
Memorial services will be held in New Jersey where she lived and in Alabama at Pleasant View Baptist Church, her childhood church, where she will be interred. Please check the website at Old Bridge Funeral Home regularly for details, hopefully by the end of April. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to a passion of Ann’s, the Children’s Ministry at Calvary Chapel Old Bridge, where she served for many years. You can send your gifts to:
Calvary Chapel
123 White Oak Lane
Old Bridge, NJ 08857
