Mary Lee Means Colpitts

COLPITTS WINSTON-SALEM Mary Lee Means Colpitts Nov. 13, 1920 - April 22, 2012 Mary Lee Means Colpitts, 91, of Winston-Salem, passed away April 22, 2012 after a brief illness. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 13, 1920 to Franklin Emmett Means and Mada Kester Means. She graduated from Northwest High School/Community College in 1938 and subsequently attended the University of Chicago. There she met and married the Rev. Robert M. Colpitts, Sr. on June 28, 1946. They lived and raised their family in Chicago, working together serving the Albany Park Baptist and Montrose Baptist Churches. After retiring from her accounting position at Swedish Covenant Hospital in 1989, she moved to the Brookridge Baptist Retirement Community in Winston-Salem, where she enjoyed singing in the Brookridge choir, attending parties and holidays with her friends and family, traveling to Blowing Rock and the Outer Banks, and cooking and crocheting. She attended College Park Baptist Church where she was active in Women's Missionary Union activities until she moved to the Prince Nursing Center at Brookridge. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her son, Robin Matthew, and four brothers and one sister. She is survived by her children, Robert (Dorothie) Colpitts, G.E. Colpitts, Philip Colpitts and Jeannie (David) Carlson and one sister, Maida Ruth (Charles) Lewis. The family requests that no flowers be sent; donations may be made to College Park Baptist Church Women's Missionary Union (WMU) in her memory. Memorial Service will be at 11:00 a.m. April 28 at College Park Baptist Church, 1701 Polo Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, Rev. Ramon Smith, Presiding. On-line condolences may be made at www.hayworth-miller.com .