Melissa Dillon Obituary
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Melissa Dillon of Portsmouth, Ohio, who passed away on October 16, 2025, at the age of 87, leaving to mourn family and friends. You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it with the family. You may also light a candle in honor of Melissa Dillon or send a beautiful flower arrangement to the funeral service.
As we bid farewell to this luminous soul, let her loved ones carry forward the torch of her memory, illuminating the path ahead with the warmth of her love and the brilliance of her spirit. Though Melissa may journey beyond the horizon of our sight, her essence remains woven into the very fabric of our being — a guiding light in the darkness, a beacon of hope in the night.
She was predeceased by: her parents, Forest Manning and Bernice Greene Manning; her children, William Robert Sexton, Ronald Shawn Sexton and Laura Lee Sexton; and her siblings, Robert Bell, Edward Bell, James'Poe'Bell, Charlotte'Betty'Worstell and Mary Louise Pelphrey.
She is survived by: her husband Daniel Lee'Matt'Dillon.
