Shelby Jean Mote

© Marietta Monitor

November 12, 1999

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

A private family memorial service for Shelby Jean Mote of Marietta will be held later this week, it has been announced by Kennedy Funeral Home.

Mrs. Mote was born March 28, 1941, at Pulaski, Virginia, and died November 8, 1999, in Mercy Health Love County. Marietta, at the age of 58. She was the daughter of Thomas and Lucille Wright Carnell.

A resident of Marietta for the past 26 years, she married Earl C. Mote on May 18, 1957, at Potsdam, Ohio. Mrs. Mote was a seamstress at Marietta Sportswear for 19 years. She was of the Protestant faith.

Survivors include her mother, Lucille Brown of West Palm Beach, Florida; husband, Earl C. Mote of the home; two sons, Earl "Lee" Mote of Marietta and Floyd Thomas Mote of Ardmore; a daughter, Katherine Jean Savage of Marietta; two brothers, Richard Carnell of Richmond, Virginia, and Eddie Wayne Brown of Georgia; a sister, Frieda Pellicoatti of West Palm Beach; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Mote was preceded in death by her father, Thomas Carnell; her step-father, William "Bill" Brown; and a sister, Vicki Brown.