Melvin Bobby Ray Beatie

Service Details

Services celebrating Melvin’s life will be held at Draeger-Langendorf Funeral Home on Friday,April 30, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow in Green Ridge Cemetery in Kenosha.  Visitation will be held in the funeral home on Friday from 10:00 – 11:00 am. Repast will commence at the Golden Coral restaurant in Kenosha, WI.

Melvin Bobby Ray Beatie, age 77 who resided in Kenosha, Wisconsin passed away at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee on Saturday, April 10, 2021. He was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi on August 27, 1943 to the late Mose Beatie and Josephine Hill- Beatie. He was raised in a Christian home and taught about the importance of having a sincere relationship with God.  At the age of 13, he confessed hope in Christ and joined East County Line CME Church in Houlka, Mississippi.   He attended Houlka Consolidated Elementary and Middle School in Houlka, MS and Houston High School in Houston, MS.

On August 2, 2014 Melvin was united in marriage with Debra Ann (nee: Bennett). Melvin was raised to work in the family business as a farmer. He was outstanding in directing the work on the farm to ensure sufficient bales of cotton were picked to go to the gin each week as well as sweet potatoes and many other organically grown produce.  In his later years, he purchased a truck to use in running his own scrap metal business.  Melvin engaged in recycling before the concept was made so popular.

Having been raised in a Christian home, he maintained a commitment to attend Church. Christian by faith…Melvin attended Blessing Center Outreach Missionary Church in Kenosha and Word of Life Christian Center in Racine. His faith was important to him which was instilled in him at an early age.  He was quite a well-rounded very warm and likeable person who enjoyed himself. Among his interests and hobbies were singing in a church quartet, working on cars, riding horses on the family farm, watching a good western show, especially Gunsmoke; shinning his Cadillac cars; and, above all, Melvin loved spending time with his entire family and gave all of his sisters playful- giggly nicknames that were terms of endearment and his only brother- Jesse was his best friend.  He loved being a father, grandfather, great-grandfather, god-father and was a gentleman who would lend a helping hand to anyone in need.

Surviving is his wife, Debra Ann Beatie; children: Tiffany (Kevin) Powell, Betty Mae (Rayfer Lee) Darden, Bobby Joe White, Delilah Dorsey. Step-children: Marcus (Toni) Bennett, Andre (Heather) Bennett and Shalonda (Walter) Young. Grandchildren:  Calvin Powell 3rd, Destinye Powell, Nevaeh Frazier, Kindelyn Anderson, Marcus Jackson, Brittany (Kyle) Russell, Monice White, Unice White, Lekisha (Tywan) Sceals, Stephanie Darden, Rayshon Darden, Leonard Darden, Archie(Kimberly) Darden; God-children:  Donnyese Banks, Rick “Little Ricky” Lee and A’Miracle Lee. Sisters: Pearlie Beatie and Dorothy (Raymond) Eubanks all of Pontotoc, MS, Dr. Birthale Archie of Columbia, MD, Eula (Sammie) Buchanan, Pontotoc, MS and Bessie Ruth Talton of Houlka, MS.  Brothers-in-Laws:  Greg (LaRonda) Bennett, Ronnie & Donnie Banks and Michael Banks; Sister-in-law: Terri Scott; and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends – too numerous to mention all by name.

Melvin was preceded in death by his parents, Mose Beatie and Josephine Hill Beatie -Gordon; brother, Jesse B. Gordon, sister Linda Beatie, daughter, Devella Dorsey; precious nephew, Jerry Allyn Moore, mother-in-law, Lela Jauhari.

Services celebrating Melvin’s life will be held at Draeger-Langendorf Funeral Home on Friday,April 30, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow in Green Ridge Cemetery in Kenosha.  Visitation will be held in the funeral home on Friday from 10:00 – 11:00 am. Repast will commence at the Golden Coral restaurant in Kenosha, WI.