Graveside services for Monty Shelite will be 1 p.m. Saturday, November 14, 2020, at the Aline Star Cemetery, with Rev. Dave Jenkins officiating. Interment is under the direction of Wentworth Mortuary LLC of Carmen.

Monty Ray Shelite, third son of Eugene "Gene" Vance and Dorothy Leora (Knox) Shelite, was born December 8, 1939, at Alva, Oklahoma, and passed away November 6, 2020, at his home surrounded by family, at the age of 80 years, 10 months, 28 days.

Monty was raised 10 miles west of Aline in Prime Sandy Loam where watermelons and cantaloupe were grown to be eaten by all. The family began...