Doris Middlebrooks Massell

Doris Massell, wife of Sam Massell, passed away on August 19th, 2015. A funeral service is scheduled for Friday, August 21st at 1 o’clock at The Temple with Rabbis Peter Berg and Alvin Sugarman officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the synagogue at 1589 Peachtree Street. Private interment will follow at Crestlawn Cemetery.

Mrs. Massell was born November 23, 1925, in Griffin, Georgia, the daughter of Ada and Dee Middlebrooks, and spent her childhood in Hogansville, Georgia, where she graduated from Hogansville High School, after, she moved to Atlanta to attend business school. She later studied art at Georgia State University, where her husband later received his Business Degree. She learned additional painting skills from Fay Gold and Selma Beard, a prolific artist in both oils and water colors.

She was employed at the Atlanta offices of The Texas Oil Company for ten years, after which she worked with her husband and their children in the tourism business they owned for thirteen years.

She and her husband were married October 25, 1952. They are survived by their children Cindy Massell, Steve Massell (and Krista), and Melanie Jacobs (and Jack), and their three grandchildren of Steve and Krista, Dylan, Graham and Isabel. Doris was preceded in death by her parents, and a brother, Johnny.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Temple, or a charity of choice.