Dessa M. Higgins

ORANGE PARK, Fla. - Dessa M. Higgins, 85, formerly of Cambridge, passed away on Friday, June 1, 2007 at the Health Quality Management in Orange Park. She was born on March 30, 1922 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and was a daughter of the late Jack and Eva Norman Melott.

Mrs. Higgins had made her home in Cambridge and Baltimore for many years. She moved to Jacksonville, Fla. in 1961. Mr. Higgins passed away on April 16, 1958.

Survivors include one brother, Mike Melott and his wife, Janice Melott of Klamath Falls, Ore. and two sisters, Marilyn Higgins and her husband, Ward Higgins and Treva A. Higgins of Town Point, and several nieces and nephews including a nephew who had been her caregiver, Donald Melott and his wife, Heidi of Orange Park, Fla.

In addition to her husband she was preceded in death by a brother, Donald Melott.

Services were held at the convenience of the family in Florida.