Melvin Koontz

Melvin Alton Koontz, age 85 of Rockwell, passed away Sunday morning at the Glenn A. Kiser Hospice House in Salisbury. Funeral service will be held 11:00 am Saturday, January 2, 2016 in the Davidson Funeral Home Lexington Chapel with Rev. Danny Sams officiating. Burial will follow in the Smith Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday night from 6:00 until 8:30 pm January 1, 2016 at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington. Melvin was born in Davidson County on October 13, 1930 to Emmanuel Whitson and Sara Jane Everson Koontz. Melvin earned his Associate Degree in engineering from the Institute of Technology. Melvin was a retired elevator inspector with the US Government and was a veteran of the US Marine Corp. and later worked with the VA Medical Center in Salisbury. He was a member of Smith Grove Baptist Church. He was lead guitarist in his band “Melvin Koontz and The New Country Sounds”, member of Astronomy Club, member of GPAA Matthew/Kannapolis Chapter of Gold Prospectors Association, an avid hunter and member of Currituck Hunt Club, member of the NRA and the AMVETS. He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Pauline Lomax, Mildred Snider, Florence Koontz and Edna Morgan; brothers, Robert Koontz, Earl “Jack” Koontz and Walter Alvin “Abby” Koontz. Melvin is survived by his daughters, Sheena Beaver (Charles) of Kannapolis and Vickie Carter (Keith) of Spencer; 7 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren; sisters, Carol Burkhart (Gary) of Lexington and Arlene Hedrick (Ernest) of Tyro; brother, Gray Koontz (Judy) of Linwood and special members of the New Country Sounds and special friends, Marlene Kennedy, Bud Moose, Brady Reavis and Kenny Bost. Memorials made be made to the Glenn A. Kiser Hospice House, 1229 Statesville Blvd. Salisbury, NC 28144