Melinda J. Cohee, 84, Rochester, passed away surrounded by family at 6:17 P.M., Monday, April 15, 2024, at Hickory Creek of Rochester.
Melinda was born on July 11, 1939 in Rochester, Indiana, the daughter of Forrest Ivan and Frances Ruth (Conrad) Grogg. Melinda attended school in Fulton, Indiana until the tenth grade and then graduated from Richland Center High School in 1957. On July 30, 1963, in Rochester, Indiana, she married Phillip L. Cohee, and he survives.
Melinda worked for twenty years as a Ward Clerk at Woodlawn Hospital. She had also worked at Hart, Schaffner and Marx, and helped on the Bob Kern’s Christmas Tree Farm. She had been a member of Trinity United Methodist Church for many years and currently attended Grace United Methodist Church. She volunteered as a Grey Lady at Woodlawn Hospital, Compassionate Health Care Center and was a member of the Eagles Lodge. She enjoyed cooking to the extreme making family meals an event to behold, sewing, tending to her flower garden, and was passionate about all animals being an advocate for animal rescue and providing a lifelong example to everyone with all her adopted dogs and cats. She truly, from childhood, loved her horses and reached a life dream of owning a Tennessee Walker ‘Izzy”.
Survivors include her husband, Phillip L. Cohee, Rochester, Indiana, daughter, Melodie (Ron) Thompson, Anderson, Indiana, son, Eric (Teresa) Cohee, Urbana, Indiana, four grandchildren, Brandi (Blackburn) and husband Brian Haberer, Fishers, Indiana, Brittany (Blackburn) and husband Shawn Foreman, Fishers, Indiana, Bree Anna Blackburn and partner Randy Hayes , Plainfield, Illinois, Erin (Cohee) and husband Tim Hickman, LaFontaine Indiana, eight great grandchildren, Lilly and Lukas Haberer, Zella and Charlee Foreman, Aiyana Carr and Rai’Ana Hayes , Kali and Lydia Hickman, niece, Bernadine (Conley) Nicodemus, Syracuse, Indiana, and nephew, Jack Conley, Syracuse, Indiana. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Jeanette Causey.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 A.M. Monday, April 22, 2024, at Zimmerman Bros. Funeral Home, Rochester, with Rev. Kurt Nichols officiating.
Friends may visit from 2:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Sunday, April 21, 2024 and one hour prior to service Monday at the funeral home.
Burial will be in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Rochester, Indiana.
Memorial contributions may be made to Magical Meadows, Warsaw, Indiana. Online condolences may be expressed at www.zimmermanbrosfh.com
