Melanie Ann Kennedy Shake, daughter of Sylva Shirley Camp Kennedy of Dexter, Missouri, and the late Amos Kennedy, was born on August 17, 1958, in Dexter, Missouri, and departed this life on August 15, 2023, at Cotton Point Living Center in Matthews, Missouri, at the age of 64 years.

Mrs. Shake was a homemaker. She loved fashion and enjoyed traveling. She was a social butterfly and never met a stranger.

Along with her mother, she is survived by her daughter, Angela Swasho and husband Robert of Poplar Bluff, Missouri; by two brothers, Ben Kennedy of Bernie, Missouri and Terry Kennedy of Puxico, Missouri; by her sister, Patricia Sharp of St. Peters, Missouri, by five grandchildren, Brandon Newell, Gatline Newell, Arianna Carter, Davin Hays, and Theron Kennedy; and by two great-grandchildren, Kyler Newell, and Ocean Newell.

Other than by her father, she was preceded in death by two daughters, Amy Kennedy, and Ashlie Kennedy; and by her brother, Mike Kennedy.

Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Friday, August 18, 2023, from 1:00 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Friday, August 18, 2023, at 2:30 p.m. Interment will follow in Sadler’s Chapel Cemetery.

Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is assisting with arrangements