Ethel Lee Minshew Kelley

Ethel Lee Minshew Kelley

May 21, 1924 – March 4, 2014

Ethel Lee Minshew Kelley, 89, of Wilson passed away Tuesday.  A funeral service will be conducted 12 noon Saturday at Joyner’s Funeral Home.  Internment will follow in Maplewood Cemetery.  The Rev. Tim Parker will officiate. The family will receive friends 11 – 11:45 a.m. Saturday prior to the service at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway, Wilson and other times at the home of Marjorie S. Kelley. In 1936 after her father’s death, Ethel and her sisters and brother were raised in the Methodist Home for children in Raleigh, where she graduated high school.  Ethel worked several jobs as a secretary including Westinghouse in Maryland and participated in the Manhattan Project.  She later settled with her husband in Wilson where they raised their two children.  She was a loving wife, mother, and homemaker.  She was a member of Forest Hills Baptist Church where she taught Sunday school and worked in the church nursery and Bible school.  Ethel loved photography and developed many pictures she took of her friends, family, neighbors and pets.  She had a natural artistic ability and painted several pictures over the years.  She was greatly loved and will be fondly remembered for her compassion, kindness and her love of God. Ethel is survived by her son, Daniel Lee Kelley of Wilson; her brother, William Lee Minshew, Jr. of Orlando, Florida; her grandson, David R. Kelley, Jr. of Cartersville, GA; her granddaughter, Laura E. Kelley of Raleigh; her daughter-in-law, Marjorie S. Kelley of Elm City and many loving nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Carlsyle Vincent; her son, David R. Kelley; an infant daughter, Barbara Susan Kelley; her parents, William Lee Minshew and Pauline Walsh Minshew Brown; her sisters, Winton Minshew, Thelma M. Kolarik, Lucille M. Walston, Josephine M. Winstead and Barbara “Bobbie” M. Walston and her step-father, Richard C. Brown. Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net.