Melba Rinehart Wood

December 27, 1923 - December 31, 2016

Melba Laverne Rinehart Wood peacefully passed away on December 31, 2016 at the age of 93. She was surrounded by her loving family, in the comfort of her home. She was born December 27, 1923 to Reuben Lee Rinehart and Ruby Beatrice Wilkerson Rinehart in Hickory Flat, Mississippi. Melba was a 1942 high school graduate and a 1943 graduate of the Business School of Commerce in Memphis. It was in Memphis where she met Joe Wood, a young merchant marine lieutenant whom she married in February 1945. When Joe came home from the service, they made their home in Earle, AR., where they both worked at a local Ford dealership. In October 1958, they came to Trumann to operate their own Ford dealership