Melissa Mack Mikkelsen of Rincon, GA passed away on June 30th in St. Petersburg, FL in the care of her beloved daughters, Meagan and Elizabeth. She was born April 25, 1973 in Savannah, GA.\u00a0 \u201cMissy\u201d graduated from Jenkins High School and attended Newberry College in Newberry, S.C. where she made many lifelong friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among Melissa\u2019s passions in life were her daughters followed closely by any and all animals. If she saw a lost or injured animal, no matter where she was or where she was going, the animal became top priority.\u00a0 She stopped and rescued animals from congested highways, parking lots, back woods roads, and saw that they were taken care of no matter what their needs happened to be. Her daughters do the same. Her first personal pet was Sugar Baby, a pony she received from her dad at age six.\u00a0 Eventually, she owned two horses also.\u00a0 When her daughters were old enough, her \u201cAunt Toady\u201d gave them the gift of a horse named Olivia.\u00a0 Melissa and her daughters made precious memories with Olivia on trails, in shows, and at the stables.<\/p>\n
Above all else, Melissa cherished her family. She is survived by:\u00a0 daughters Elizabeth Nelms (Landin) of Rincon,GA , Meagan Mikkelsen (J.P.) of St. Petersburg, FL, grandson Albert Mack Garanton, St. Peterburg; parents William \u201cBilly\u201d Mack Sr. and Patricia Mack, Maysville, GA, brother William \u201cBilly\u201d Mack Jr. (Sarah) of Savannah; grandmother Frances Kersey of St. Pete, aunts Patsy Linton (James) of Moncks Corner, S.C. and Kathy Wiggins(Chris) of St. Pete, FL, her BFF cousin, Donna Jennings, Mt. Pleasant, S.C., cousins Clayton Clark (Roxie) of Goose Creek, S.C. \u00a0and Chris Wiggins (Jamie), St, Pete, FL.\u00a0 Of great importance to her is to recognize she is survived by her beloved dog, Maggie, who will remain with family as promised.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held at 3 P.M. Sunday, July 19th\u00a0\u00a0at Maranatha Family Church, 454 Wisenbaker Rd., Rincon, GA.\u00a0 Visitation at the church will start at 2:30 P.M. prior to the service.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Melissa will be remembered for her strength, determination, love of life, love of animals, and the steadfast love for her daughters, grandson, and family.\u00a0 Her legacy lives on in the family and friends she loved and treasured.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to one of her family\u2019s favorite pet rescues in her memory.\u00a0 Pooler Paws @ poolerpaws.org and\/or Angels Retreat on facebook and also 289 Eagle Fork Ter., Hayesville, NC 26904.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melissa Mack Mikkelsen of Rincon, GA passed away on June 30th in St. Petersburg, FL in the care…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[137740,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-333998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-something-interesting-for-the-keywords-here","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}