Melda Sears, age 92 of Somerset, Kentucky, departed from this life on Monday, September 5, 2011 at Somerset Nursing & Rehab.

She was born on October 26, 1918 in Acorn, Kentucky to the late Pryor and Maggie Boyd Whitaker.  She was a member of Denham Street Baptist Church.  She was a nurse aide at the old Somerset Hospital.  She loved reading the Bible and she loved her Lord.  Mrs. Sears always had beautiful flowers and loved working in them.   She loved cooking for her family.  She loved being with her grandchildren.

She is survived by two sons, David (and Cheryl L.) Sears and Gary (and Cheryl E.) Sears, both of Somerset, KY; seven daughters, Joann (and Harold) Colyer of Somerset, KY, Sylvia (and Darwin) Whitaker of Greenwood, IN, Barbara (and Rick) Mullins of Somerset, KY, Connie (and Edgar) Eversole of Annville, KY, Linda (and Edwin) Price of Somerset, KY, Kay Neumeyer of Somerset, KY and Lucille Goodin of Somerset, KY; fourteen grandchildren, Karen Poynter, Carroll Colyer, Douglas Colyer, Genevieve Turner, Sylvia Roberts, Rhonda Puckett, Greg Whitaker, Kim Sears, Lynn Up Church, Lisa Watson, Deanna Crombie, Naomi Eversole, Bryan Sears and Nathan Price; twenty-one great grandchildren; and eleven great-great grandchildren; and one sister, Vella M. Cubel. 

Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard O. Sears, who  preceded her in death on March 24, 1975; three great grandchildren; five brothers, a twin brother, Melvin Whitaker, Gertie, Vert, Claude and Earl Whitaker; two half-brothers, Bill and Logan Whitaker; two sisters, Martha Harris and Jewell Whitaker; and a half-sister, Lottie Mae Whitaker.   

Visitation will be Thursday, September 8, 2011 after 11:00 at the Chapel of Lake Cumberland Funeral Home, 1046 West Highway 80, Somerset, Kentucky with funeral service to follow at 1:00 p.m.  Brother J. S. New will officiate.  Burial will be in the Acorn Cemetery.