Melanie Joy Lopez, age 3, went to be with angels Tuesday, July 21, 2020 due to injuries sustained in a motor incident.
She was born April 25, 2017 to Arturo Lopez Mendez and Cassondra Dixon. She loved unicorns, horses, and llamas. She enjoyed playing outside with siblings and catching lightning bugs. Her favorite princess was Princess Ana and she proudly knew how to count to ten, recite the ABC’s and knew all the colors.
She will be deeply missed by her parents, Arturo and Cassondra; siblings, Makiya, Kaden, Sofia, Leah; grandparents, Rhea and David Dixon, great-grandmother, Violet Grosswiler; grandmother, Rogeli Mendez; and grandfather Jaime Lopez. She is also survived by aunts, Beatriz Lopez, Xochilt Lopez, Elizabet Lopez, Lucinda Lopez and Elda Lopez; uncles, Antelmo Lopez, Mendez Diego Lopez and Yimmy Lopez; and other aunts and uncles, Yolanda and Anthony Straughn, Amanda Dixon, Miranda Dixon, Larenda and Abimael Madonado, Lucinda and Tim Patterson, Carlinda Dixon and Charles Dixon; great-aunts and great-uncles, Billy and Rose Dixon, Pamela Shinn; as well as many cousins.
She was preceded in death by her grandfathers, Lucian S. Grosswiler and Ray E. Dixon; grandmother, Doris Faye Dixon; great-aunts, Carla Dixon Bowers, Viola Kolar, and Virginia Dunham; great uncle, Earl Dunham; cousin, Chuck Dunham.
TRUST and believe she is in UTOPIA. 👼🙏
She looks like a little Princess. She caughts my eye while I was strolling through my texts cause I’ve got pictures of my son at her age. They could have been twins. I’m deeply sorry 💔 for your loss. I lost my Aaron in 2002 at 24 in a bad car accident. God’s blessing and comfort is the only comfort that sustains me. My Hurt still haunts me everyday. I am a Lopez through my late Husband from New York. Most of his Family are in Orlando, Florida. I left Florida right after Christmas last year because the memories were on every corner around me
My home town was Clearwater, Florida.