Dora Glenn Meldrim

Dora Glenn Meldrim, age 81, of Palm Springs, Florida, went home to be with her Lord and her husband, Irvin, on Monday, February 17, 2025. She was born on October 22, 1943, in Pensacola, Florida, growing up on Davis Hwy. and meeting her Lord and Savior at East Brent Baptist Church. She graduated from Pensacola High School in 1961. A year later, she was proposed to by a Navy helicopter mechanic who had just been honorably discharged from active service. After a three-month courtship, She married Irvin, the love of her life, and after the wedding, the couple moved to West Palm Beach in 1962. While her husband began his apprenticeship in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Dora began working at G. C. Murphy Company in Palm Beach County’s first shopping mall, Palm Coast Plaza. The couple’s first apartment was a small one-room over a garage for $53 a month. On January 11, 1962, Dora and her husband committed their lives to their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and soon became members of Barton Road Baptist Church in Lantana, where they would worship, serve, and raise their family. In 1970, they adopted their first son, Jimmy, and seven years later, Dora discovered she was pregnant with twins. In 1977, she welcomed Stephen and Stephanie to their family. In 1989, they became the owners of Lightning Electric, Inc., a 66-year-old electrical contracting company in West Palm Beach. Dora shared an office with Irv, overseeing the bookkeeping and other essential business details; she was his best partner. They loved taking their sport fishing boat, “Sporty Girl,” fishing, scuba diving, and on many trips to the Bahama Islands. Dora is preceded in death by her parents, Aloyd T. Rice of Blairsville, GA, and Nettie Mae Rice of Pensacola, FL, and sisters-in-law, Judith Macdonald and Judith Meldrim. She is survived by her Son, Jim; daughter-in-law, Tami; grandsons, Cameron, Connor, and his wife, Hailey; great-grandson, Johnathan, and granddaughter, Charis; Son, Stephen; daughter-in-law, Angela, grandsons, Tyler, Zachary, Gunner, and Jaden; Daughter, Stephanie Klein, son-in-law, Christopher and granddaughters, Kaile, Emma, Vivian, and grandson, Samuel. Her sister, Marsha S. Edwards of Pensacola; Brother-in-law, Bob Meldrim of Pensacola, along with nephews Jeff and Mark; and niece, Jennifer Freckleton; Brother-in-law, Don “Mac” Macdonald of Oklahoma City; niece Barbara Ann Gloria, and nephew Kenneth Macdonald. She leaves her family temporarily, knowing that because of Christ, we can be together again in heaven. Dora will be remembered for her beautiful smile and generous, kind, joyful, welcoming spirit who loved her Lord and family. She is reunited with her husband of fifty-one years and, hopefully, they are fishing again offshore for Mahi Mahi or Tuna. Her celebration of life is to be held Saturday, March 1, 2025, at Grace Fellowship Church at 8350 Okeechobee Blvd in West Palm Beach. Friends and family are invited to gather for remembrance before the service from 10:00 am to 11:30 am, with memorial service to follow at 11:30 am. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Dorsey-E. Earl Smith Memory Gardens Funeral Home, 3041 Kirk Road, Lake Worth, FL 33461.