Louise S. Kelly

February 17, 2018

Louise Shelton Kelly, 90, of Bainbridge, Ga., passed away Saturday, February 17, 2018.

The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at Ivey Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Mike Phillips officiating. Interment will be at Brinson Cemetery.

The family will receive friends immediately following the service. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com. Memorial donations may be made to: Kindred Hospice, 432 E. Shotwell Street, Bainbridge, GA 39819.

Louise was born May 4, 1927, in Calhoun County, Fla., the daughter of Earl Travis Shelton and Frances Buleah Freeman Shelton. She loved people and they loved her. She looked for the best in everyone. When she wasn’t working at Betty’s Cafeteria or as an aid at Memorial Hospital, she enjoyed fishing. She was a member of West Street Baptist Church.

Survivors include her daughters, Betty Kelly Martin and her husband, Winston, and

Frances Ellen Kelly Hatton and her husband, Herman; her sons, Winston “Sonny” Kelly and James Franklin “Frankie” Kelly; her siblings, Myrtic S. Baldwin of Minnesota, Doris Nickel of Blountstown, Fla., Jean Etheridge of Port St. Joe, Fla. Audrey Shelton of Altha, Fla., and Shirl White of Altha,; her nine grandchildren; her five great-grandchildren; and her three great-great-grandchildren. Louise was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Walter Kraft; and her siblings, Leon “Pete” Shelton and Oleta Shelton.